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

In the 1970s, incarcerated musicians across Texas formed bands and recorded music inside prison walls. Maurice Chammah, a ...

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 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 ...

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

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

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 ...

A district court judge said in March that hot conditions for inmates are “plainly unconstitutional.” Texas lawmakers ended the state’s most recent legislative session without advancing a plan to ...

The Texas Attorney General's Office is investigating the death of an inmate over the weekend at a state prison near Amarillo. Here's what we know.

A Texas Department of Criminal Justice correctional officer accused of smuggling tobacco into an East Texas prison unit using ...

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 ...