A legal battle over a lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons is bringing together advocates on the issue and one current ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KLTV) - Bernie Tiede, the East Texas inspiration for the movie “Bernie,” is joined by other advocates in a legal battle over a lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons, according to ...

Advocates for Texas prisoners on Monday asked to join a federal lawsuit filed last year by Bernie Tiede, who has alleged his life is in danger because he was being housed in a stifling prison cell ...

Bernie Tiede (left) in court at the Rusk County Justice Center in Henderson. Tiede was convicted in 1999 of killing Marjorie Nugent, a widow more than 40 years his senior whom he befriended in ...

Advocates for Texas prisoners on Monday asked to join a federal lawsuit filed last year by Bernie Tiede, who has alleged his life is in danger because he was being housed in a stifling prison cell ...

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Tiede’s attorneys on Monday filed to widen the lawsuit’s scope to all Texas inmates in hopes of bringing air conditioning to the roughly 85,000 inmates — 70% of Texas’ jail population ...