Two escaped inmates were captured over 300 miles away in Huntsville, Texas. They were extradited back to Louisiana.

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 ...

The infamous Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, 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 ...

Wynne Unit in Huntsville. “I was so scared ... They have little contact with the world beyond the prison walls. Texas prisons restrict access to the internet and libraries, limiting how ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court halted ... cell a few feet from America’s busiest death chamber at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, waiting for certainty over whether he would be ...

The Texas Supreme Court stopped the scheduled ... a few metres from his country's busiest death chamber at the Walls Unit, in Huntsville, as he waited for certainty over his fate.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (KBTX) -An inmate’s recent escape from the Huntsville Unit has sparked questions ... using a makeshift rope to scale the prison walls. Moments later, he allegedly stole a ...

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 ...

People from Texas seem to have more pride in being ... penaltyOpens in new window ] About a mile away from the Huntsville Walls Unit and bordering the grounds of the university is Captain Joe ...