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 ...

The Huntsville Unit, the state’s oldest prison in Texas dating to 1849, is shown here on Oct. 10, 2017. The state of Texas is defending its prison system against a lawsuit that says the lack of air ...

This essay is a preview of Redemption Songs, an upcoming limited-run Marshall Project newsletter that dives into the music ...

Last year, the Texas prison system unwittingly started a controlled experiment. Agency leaders have long blamed prisoners’ friends and families for a constant flow of drugs they say are often smuggled ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said hardback books are increasingly being used to smuggle in drugs. Nonprofits ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Horses graze outside the TDCJ Allan B. Polunsky Unit July 14, 2018 in Livingston. Christopher Young, who is on death row there for ...

On October 1, 1849, an inmate was brought to the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. He was the first inmate in the new partially completed Walls Unit, and was serving time as a convicted horse ...

Texas prisons without air conditioning get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely violate state standards for other types of lockups, like county jails, according to a new ...

Until federal immigration agents declared the Rev. James Eliud Ngahu Mwangi a deportable alien, the Kenyan native was working as a Texas prison guard, with his employment authorization vetted by the ...