A family feud over drugs, money and fried fish roils the heart of the Texas prison system. By KERI BLAKINGER It is 11 a.m. on a Saturday and the sun is shining on the shores of Lake Conroe, where the woman once known as the First Lady of Huntsville, Texas, is standing...
After a decade of efforts that sharply reduced inmate populations, California is closing prisons. One town high in the Sierra Nevada whose economy is built on incarceration is waging a legal battle to keep a prison open. Susanville, Calif., is poised to lose a...
