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 ...

Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery Also known as TDJC Execution, Huntsville Prison Cemetery, Huntsville, Walker County, Texas, USA Image by Find A Graveweb (1) The Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, the ...

High-security inmates at 19 prisons went on a weekslong lockdown last month after two prisoners were killed at the East Texas lockup that houses death row. Just outside of Livingston, the Polunsky ...

Another Texas summer is here, and once again, tens of thousands of people incarcerated in Texas prisons are sweltering, and some are dying, because they're denied the necessity of air conditioning.

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 ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about how the system works here and a firsthand account from a reporter who witnessed an execution here.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Incarcerated people exercise in the maximum security yard of the Lansing Correctional Facility in April 2023 in Lansing, Kan. This ...

Albert Einstein once said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them." As someone incarcerated in a Texas prison, I thought of that when I heard about the ...

Texas prisons are bracing for an incoming winter storm as the state's correctional system works to keep inmates safe and facilities operational during what could be severe weather, according to a ...

Lamar Simpson, an inmate at the Sanders Estes Unit prison in Venus, holds his sleeping two-year-old son, Jamari during a Chirstmas with dads event Dec. 19, 2025. Azul Sordo / Staff Photographer The ...

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 ...

The Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, the largest prison graveyard in the United States, continues to grow quietly behind the Walls Unit. The new count marks the first detailed public update on ...