HUNTSVILLE, Texas — From outside the front door of the Texas Prison Museum, you can clearly see the Holliday Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice surrounded by towering walls.

“The Huntsville unit is an icon, it’s the best way to describe it,” said Texas Prison Museum director David Stacks. He was never assigned to work in the Walls Unit, but he says he helped ...

Over 650 inmates were evacuated after a fire broke out at a Texas state prison in Huntsville. No one was injured in the fire and inmates were moved to other areas of the prison, according to ...

an exhibit at the Texas Prison Museum shows the old Texas electric chair used to execute hundred of Texas inmates in Huntsville, Texas, from 1924 through 1964. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk ...

TX – Officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) said an inmate who escaped prison is back in custody. Jesus Villareal, 39, went missing from the Huntsville Unit on Sunday ...

"Texas has the death penalty, and we use it! That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back. That's our policy. Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty.

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 ...

With barely a peep from preservationists, another piece of Texas history was razed in mid-January as bulldozers unceremoniously demolished the prison rodeo arena in Huntsville. The brick-and ...

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but once upon a time in Texas, just outside the “Walls” unit of the state prison in Huntsville, thousands of prisoners risked life and limb participating in one of the toughest rodeos in the USA.