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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The famous Texas burlesque dancer Candy Barr (born Juanita Dale Slusher) performs with a band of incarcerated musicians, including ...

In Texas, a long-forgotten series of prison albums offers a rare way to hear what incarceration sounded like decades ago. The albums were recorded by incarcerated musicians inside Texas prisons and ...

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This essay is a preview of Redemption Songs, an upcoming limited-run Marshall Project newsletter that dives into the music produced in prisons over the last century. Sign up now to get a song by ...