Inside the Radio Stations and Podcasts Run by People in Texas Prisons

October 29, 2026 — Advocacy and Resources

LIVINGSTON, Texas — Inside three Texas prisons, people in custody are running their own radio stations and producing video podcasts that reach residents across the TDCJ system on their tablets, according to the September 2026 issue of The ECHO, the newspaper published for people in TDCJ by the Windham School District. The shows feature interviews, […]

Texas Executes Jamaal Howard as Lawyers Raise Pentobarbital Concerns After Failed Tennessee Execution

October 29, 2026 — Politics and Policy

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas executed Jamaal Howard on Oct. 7, 2026, one week after a failed execution in Tennessee using the same drug, pentobarbital, raised new questions about whether the drug states use for lethal injections works as intended. Howard, 46, was pronounced dead at 8:03 p.m. at the Huntsville Unit after a single lethal […]

Life inside the Polunsky Unit: What it’s like waiting for execution on Texas’ death row – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

July 15, 2026 — Uncategorized

Inside Polunsky: The Isolated Reality of Texas Death Row The Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, holds one of the most closely watched populations in American corrections — the men awaiting execution on Texas death row. Unlike many other states, Texas houses its condemned inmates in single-cell solitary confinement, where men spend the vast majority of […]