The Arkansas prison rodeo was an annual event held at the Cummins Unit in Grady from 1972 until 1984. Prison commissioner T.
Each year, the Louisiana State Penitentiary holds its Angola Prison Rodeo, which has been hosted annually since 1965. The rodeo features inmates who have volunteered to compete in events, as well as a ...
On October 1, 1849, an inmate was brought to the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. He was the first inmate in the new partially completed Walls Unit, and was serving time as a convicted horse ...
The gospel music flickers into range around mile 17 on the Tunica Trace, a trail formerly used by the Tunica Native American tribe paved into a 20-mile highway in West Feliciana Parish. As hundreds of ...