Aperture

Emily Kinni

Huntsville is a prison town. Situated on over fifty acres of land near the town’s center, the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville is the oldest prison in the state of Texas, built in 1849, only four years after Texas was annexed to the United States. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is headquartered in Huntsville, and it is the largest employer

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