Years later, in 1931, the general manager of the prison system, Marshall Lee Simmons, dreamed up the idea of the prison rodeo ...

Alexis Woods is facing the same crisis as other prisoners across Texas in this summer’s historic heat. With temperatures soaring to 120 and even 130 degrees in her cell at the Dr. Lane Murray Unit ...

On a weekend in mid-August, hundreds of inmates at a minimum-security prison in Bryan, Texas, were locked down during their usual time for strolling the grassy campus and visiting with family and ...

After being sentenced to more than 10 years in state prison, Kristina Chambers will join the small population of incarcerated expectant mothers. For pregnant women spending time in prison, the Texas ...

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 ...