Unlike in the UK, Texan prisoners are forced to work behind bars, which in this prison means a shift in the onsite textile mill making fabric for prison uniforms.
The Sun was this week given rare access inside two strict Texas prisons where men and women serve time for the worst felonies.
Two death row inmates are currently receiving medical treatment in the prison’s hospital wing, with the jail just a 20-minute drive from the execution unit in Huntsville — the most active chamber in the US.
TOUGH Texas justice is on its way to British prisons, with inmates having to earn their release and facing punishment for sitting around all day behind bars.
Delgado — formerly a “sergeant” in the deadly US-based Mexican Mafia gang — has now served 25 years in prison, and found God after 13 years in solitary confinement.
