State hit by new wrongful death lawsuit by family of Jason Wilson, who died in ‘brutally hot, un-airconditioned’ cell ...

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 ...

The exterior of the Texas State Penitentiary’s Walls Unit, which houses the state’s primary execution chamber, is seen on Aug. 20, 2020, in Huntsville. Texas' highest criminal court has overturned the ...

Texas is making one of its biggest prison investments in years, adding thousands of new beds while spending hundreds of millions on repairs and upgrades.

The former Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City earned the designation "the bloodiest 47 acres in America" and has long carried the greatest notoriety among the region's prisons. But Algoa ...