prisoners

From Texas Standard: Texas has long had a “tough on crime” reputation, and the numbers back that up. Texas is seventh in the nation when it comes to its...

From Texas Standard . Arnold Darby, a 69-year-old inmate at Huntsville's Goree Unit, speaks with the Texas Standard about his craft as a bootmaker....

From Texas Standard: Stephanie Garcia is a high school student. She’s also a 24-year-old inmate at the Lockhart Correctional Facility, a minimum...

From Texas Standard: Texas led the country in exonerations last year, with 54 statewide. in the state. New York placed a distant second with only 17,...

Words Unlocked, a poetry contest for juveniles in corrections, has drawn more than 1,000 entries. Its judge, Jimmy Santiago Baca, says it was a poetry book that helped him survive his own prison term.

From Texas Standard: In August 1992, Dallas Police received a call from a witness who reported seeing a rape. When officers arrived, they found two men,...

From Texas Standard: Dallas-based Securus Technologies is one of the leading providers of phone services inside prisons across the nation. And now they...

Thousands of federal inmates are being released because of a change in the way the U.S. government sentences drug criminals, but few are going straight from prison to freedom.

From Texas Standard: Between October 30 and November 2 of this year, about 6,000 federal prisoners from across the country will be released.

From Texas Standard: Sometime between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2, something unprecedented will happen at the nation's federal prisons: the largest one-time...