in an interview with The Texas Tribune, specifically named the Darrington, Goree and Eastham prisons. There are 99 state prisons and jails in the state, at least several of which are named after ...

Nearly 25 years ago, seven inmates broke free from a maximum-security prison in South Texas. A weeks-long manhunt ensued, ...

He came into the prison system in May 2003. The Eastham Unit is a maximum security prison in Houston County in East Texas. Reescano said Eastham has a capacity of 2,474 inmates and had 2,448 ...

Their immediate goal was conducting the long-planned Eastham Prison Farm break ... In the 1930s, almost every Texas family had a gun or two—it was considered strange to be weaponless.

Since 2010, The Texas Tribune has published information about Texas’ more than 100 prison units and the tens of thousands of people housed inside them. The data was provided by the Texas ...