It happens at Texas' oldest prison, the Huntsville Unit, known better as "The Walls." "Old Sparky," the electric chair that executed 361 prisoners between 1924 and 1964, has been consigned to the ...

Authorities are turning their attention toward people who helped inmates who literally broke out of a New Orleans jail 11 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Only two of the 10 New Orleans jail escapees remain on the run Tuesday after police captured two men ...

did you know that the Huntsville Unit was where country music superstar, Cody Johnson, was a prison guard? But even CoJo is probably not the most famous person to walk the halls of "Walls Unit." It's ...

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 ...

In the hours leading up to the ruling, Roberson had been confined to a prison holding cell a few feet from America’s busiest death chamber at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, waiting for certainty ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP ... In the hours leading up to the ruling, Roberson had been confined to a prison holding cell a few feet from America’s busiest death chamber at the Walls Unit in Hunstville, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...