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 ...

Around two thirds of Texas state prisons have either limited or no air conditioning.

A faith-based restorative justice program operating inside Texas prisons boasts an 89% success rate in keeping graduates from reoffending within three years, and is looking for volunteers to help lead ...

Prisoners at Ellis Unit in Huntsville, Texas, in March of 1966. Ellis is built on land from a former slave plantation. Credit: Photo by Bruce Jackson On a 90-degree June day at Memorial Unit in ...

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.

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 ...

A group that provides books to Texas inmates says new restrictions on prison donations could hinder their work.

Men at the Connally Unit Credit: image via Facebook / TDCJ – John B. Connally Unit The Texas Department of Criminal Justice acknowledges that tuberculosis has broken out in one of its largest prisons, ...

Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you.

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 ...