Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For 175 years, the oldest prison in Texas was led by men. Now, for the first time, a woman is in charge. The Huntsville Unit, ...

For 55 years, from 1931 to 1986, Texas prisoners were given the chance to participate in a wild west rodeo every October as thousands of spectators paid to watch.

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio’s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. In Texas, a long-forgotten series of prison albums ...

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Once drawing thousands to Huntsville, the Texas Prison Rodeo combined inmate competitions, wild bulls and big crowds in a ...

This essay is a preview of Redemption Songs, an upcoming limited-run Marshall Project newsletter that dives into the music produced in prisons over the last century. Sign up now to get a song by ...

Roy Oliver, the former Balch Springs police officer convicted last month of murder in the killing of an unarmed 15-year-old, has arrived at a state prison to begin his sentence. Oliver was moved from ...