The Darrington, Goree and Eastham units are among the prisons that State Rep. James White wants changed. 24/7 Live Houston Southwest Southeast Northwest Northeast Welcome, Mickey ...

A Republican who has led the Texas Legislature’s House Committee on Corrections for years is asking the state to rename prisons that honor slave owners and those tied to convict leasing, a ...

LOVELADY, Texas (KTRE) - The Texas Board of Criminal Justice voted Friday morning to rename the Eastham Unit which will become the J. Dale Wainwright Unit. The over 12,000-acre prison campus with ...

A Republican Texas state lawmaker is seeking to rename prisons in the state that have been named for slave owners or people connected to convict leasing, which was a system in which Black ...

The Prison Show can be heard in 14 prisons across East Texas. One of those facilities is the Eastham Unit, which sits north of Houston, in the middle of vast fields where inmates raise cattle and ...

Eastham prison a cruel place. Re: “Rename Texas prisons — Some corrections facilities carry the legacy of slavery on their front gates, and that must be changed,” Tuesday Editorials.

Five years after being freed from prison, ... In February 2014, I headed to the Eastham prison in East Texas to meet the man who turned my whole world upside down, Alonzo Hardy.

Near Lovelady, Texas, at the dead end of Farm-to-Market Road 230 stands Eastham Prison, a maximum-security men’s prison also known as “The Ham.” ...

Texas prison officials accused of destroying evidence in burn pit outside Eastham Unit Lawyer for accused calls felony charges ‘overreach’ By Keri Blakinger , Houston Chronicle July 20, 2018 ...