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More than 1,400 state prison inmates - mostly elderly and disabled at the Wallace Pack Unit in Grimes County - will be included in a federal lawsuit that claims they are suffering "cruel and unusual" ...

A federal judge in Houston has ordered the Texas prison system to provide safe drinking water to inmates at the Pack Unit in Navasota, saying the unit's arsenic-laden well water "violates contemporary ...

A tentative settlement agreement has been reached in a civil rights lawsuit in which attorneys for inmates at a Southeast Texas prison said sweltering summer heat was endangering the inmates’ health, ...

A federal judge in Houston has granted class-action status to a lawsuit by a group of state prison inmates, meaning the court will consider whether it is "cruel and unusual" punishment for 1,400 ...

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