Elaine* spent the final 20 years of her life writing letters to 25 long-term prisoners in the U.S. prison system. Each of the 24 men and the sole woman ...

Inmate Bernie Tiede, well known as the subject of the 2011 Richard Linklater movie "Bernie," filed the lawsuit against Collier and the TDCJ in August 2023 after suffering an acute medical crisis ...

Bonsall says the correspondence started "when I was on Family Ties." Bonall's mother Kathleen, who held the letter back from her son until he reached adulthood, recalled, "I just remember them ...

The state did allocate $85 million to the TDCJ, and the agency is using that money to pay for air conditioning units. That money will help about 10,000 inmates move into air conditioned facilities.

"TDCJ is fully committed to the safety of the inmate population and our staff, and that commitment is reflected in TDCJ’s ongoing efforts to install air conditioning, identify inmates who are ...

Lawmakers didn’t close three privately operated units; they had TDCJ assume management of them. The benefits — to the state, to employees and probably to inmates ... in a letter to the ...