The O.B. Ellis Unit, a state prison in Huntsville in 2018. The state locked down all Texas prisons to search for contraband after an increase in drugs and homicides. Family members of inmates say ...

More than 250 people were on the waitlist this month alone across the nine prison units that Lee College services, nearly all of which circle the town of Huntsville. Inmates in Texas’ other ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Calvin Green paced around the table again and again. Green was reenacting his response to getting his first smartphone after nearly 26 years in prison for a group of ...

HUNTSVILLE, 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 ...

Huntsville’s Downtown Rescue Mission is experiencing a critical shortage of non-perishable food items, the shelter announced ...

Jesus Villarreal, 39, escaped from the Huntsville unit at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on Sunday morning. Villarreal was arrested hours later in Calallen, Texas. (Texas Department of ...

Cesar Hernandez, an inmate at the Huntsville Unit in Texas, got candid about execution day prison in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project. As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 inmates on ...

Eighty miles down the road from Palestine is Huntsville, Texas’ most famous prison town. Huntsville is home to seven state prisons and the headquarters of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Jesus Villareal (TDCJ #01499570), 39 years old, was determined missing from the Huntsville Unit on Sept 8 in Huntsville. Villareal is believed to be in a maroon Chevy Malibu with Texas license ...

In Texas, guards make between $42,000 and $51,000 a year, depending on experience, and are getting a 5% raise effective July 1. The officers earn an average of $8,000 a year in overtime, the agency ...

KSAT Investigates was granted exclusive access inside a prison while this lockdown was happening to see firsthand what the problems were. This is our day in Huntsville.

At Huntsville Unit, a prison situated on the edge of a vast national forest 70 miles north of Houston, the close calls increase with the heat. I’m talking about the temperaments of both inmates ...