In Texas, a long-forgotten series of prison albums offers a rare way to hear what incarceration sounded like decades ago. Maurice Chammah, a staff writer at The Marshall Project is rescuing and ...

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Roy Oliver, the former Balch Springs police officer convicted last month of murder in the killing of an unarmed 15-year-old, has arrived at a state prison to begin his sentence. Oliver was moved from ...

Texas death row inmate Cedric Ricks, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son, apologized to a surviving victim before execution.

This essay is a preview of Redemption Songs, an upcoming limited-run Marshall Project newsletter that dives into the music produced in prisons over the last century. Sign up now to get a song by ...