Prisons and Jails

Lawyers for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice say the state's prisons have made strides in getting more air conditioning. Plaintiffs say the state's still not addressing heat-related deaths.

The City of Lubbock has announced spring and summer irrigation restrictions in effect now through Sept. 30. Our Mia Shephard explains the guidelines and you can find more at mylubbock.us/irrigation. A trial over a lack of air conditioning and excessive heat in Texas prisons will continue this week in a federal court in Austin. KUT’s Andrew Weber reports the trial will determine if state prisons are subject to the same regulations as county lockups and federal prisons.

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Centers of Lubbock and of El Paso are among the nine schools that received funding for the program, increasing the total number of accredited forensic psychiatry fellowships.

In Texas, a long-forgotten series of prison albums offers a rare way to hear what incarceration sounded like decades ago. Maurice Chammah, a staff writer at The Marshall Project is rescuing and reporting on the music recorded behind the walls.