According to TDCJ Officials, Jesus Villarreal, 39, escaped from the Huntsville Unit early Sunday morning using a makeshift rope to scale the prison walls. Moments later, he allegedly stole a car ...

Fifty years ago last month, prisoner Fred Gomez Carrasco and an accomplice, Rudolfo Dominguez, died in a shoot-out during an attempted prison break at the Huntsville “Walls” Unit. Tragically ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The Texas Department ... Winfrey they believe the inmate used a rope to climb down the wall of the prison before he robbed a nearby gas station just before 12:30 a.m. TDCJ ...

Nicknamed as the Walls Unit, the prison is over 54 acres in the downtown area of Huntsville and the oldest Texas prison, opening in 1849. Warden Strong has worked for the Corrections Division of ...

In Huntsville, meanwhile, First Baptist sends volunteers into the prison units each day for visitations ... By the time they are released at the Walls Unit, they have built a relationship with ...

The Texas Prison Rodeo is featured in a new online archive available through the library's website. The archive offers a comprehensive look at the 55-year history of the Huntsville-based rodeo ...

After that, prison procedure kicked in ... death penaltyOpens in new window ] About a mile away from the Huntsville Walls Unit and bordering the grounds of the university is Captain Joe Byrd ...