Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The famous Texas burlesque dancer Candy Barr (born Juanita Dale Slusher) performs with a band of incarcerated musicians, including ...

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Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio's newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. In Texas, a long-forgotten series of prison albums ...

Thai rocker Sek Loso will perform outside prison for the first time since he began serving his sentence, at an event being held by the Department of Corrections this week. Sek, whose real name is ...

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In Texas, a long-forgotten series of prison albums offers a rare way to hear what incarceration sounded like decades ago. The albums were recorded by incarcerated musicians inside Texas prisons and ...

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