This essay is a preview of Redemption Songs, an upcoming limited-run Marshall Project newsletter that dives into the music ...

In Texas, a long-forgotten series of prison albums offers a rare way to hear what incarceration sounded like decades ago.

Prisoners at Ellis Unit in Huntsville, Texas, in March of 1966. Ellis is built on land from a former slave plantation. Credit: Photo by Bruce Jackson On a 90-degree June day at Memorial Unit in ...

The former Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City earned the designation "the bloodiest 47 acres in America" and has long carried the greatest notoriety among the region's prisons.