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 correctional officer for a federal prison in Texas has been sentenced to 10 years' confinement for smuggling multiple drugs ...

This essay is a preview of Redemption Songs, an upcoming limited-run Marshall Project newsletter that dives into the music ...

A federal correctional officer from Beaumont is heading to the other side of the bars after being caught with a stash of ...

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 ...

Humberto Martinez pleaded guilty to capital murder on March 4 in the strangling death of Hope Raley. Martinez was sentenced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE IMAGE - Cells inside the Suffolk County Correctional Jail Facility in Riverhead, New York on Jan. 16, 2019. (Photo by J.

A Texas mother who spent the last 22 years in prison was exonerated Monday in the 2003 death of a 10-month-old boy who was burned from scalding bathwater while in her care ...

The women said they were being paid $40,000 to smuggle in the items.

They couldn’t fly the coop. Two Texas women went to great lengths to sneak contraband into a prison — disguising drugs and phones inside a fake crow that they tried to fly by drone over the federal ...

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 ...