As clips of Texas lawmakers breaking gavels go viral on social media, the Statesman set about to find out where they're made.

He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and is serving his time at the W. F. Ramsey Unit in Rosharon, Texas. It only took two and a half hours for the jury to reach a ...

A federal judge ruled that extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional" – but fell short of requiring the state to install air conditioning. People ...

Hutto got his start running prisons in 1967, when he became warden of the Ramsey plantation in Rosharon, Texas. Ramsey was as ... qualified to run Cummins Farm Unit, the 16,000-acre plantation ...

“That’s amazing,” said West, 45, a painter and sculptor who works out of the W.F. Ramsey Unit in Rosharon, Texas. “I too would like to create a large body of work like that.” And so, in a craft shop ...

Music fans of a certain Houston-area rapper and convicted sex offender have learned if he will be released from prison this ... the last 23 years in Ramsey Unit in Rosharon. He was up for his ...

F. Ramsey Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison farm located in unincorporated Brazoria County, Texas, with a Rosharon postal address. He was sentenced on May 5, 2002 and his ...

All of the Texas Observer’s ... He eventually appealed to the prison ombudsman to get a unit change and was transferred in 2023 to the agriculture-focused Ramsey Unit nearby.

He didn’t answer any of them. Six months after the trial, in May 2023, after Ortiz was transferred to the Ramsey Unit, a Texas prison located in Rosharon, Texas, messages from him suddenly ...

James Guevara has ridden out three hurricanes sheltered in-place in Texas prisons ... housed at the Terrell Unit, a medium security prison co-located with Ramsey in Brazoria County, said the ...

On a 90-degree June day at Memorial Unit in Southeast Texas, the humidity makes ... engineering from UT-San Antonio, but at Ramsey – another prison on a former slave plantation – his job ...

Calvin Lee Patterson, 23, escaped the facility around 4 a.m. based on a report from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The Stringfellow Unit is located at 1200 FM 655. Deputies said he had ...