After committing a terrible crime and being found guilty in a court of law, an individual can be sentenced to life in prison. Based on the name, you would assume that means they will stay in prison until they die, but that is not always the case.
The TDCJ has instituted a systemwide lockdown to being intensified searches to help combat the contraband coming into the prisons and to curb the violence.
I mean as far as Texas justice goes I am not so sure about this one. It's been an up and down battle. The Thomas Michael Dixon case, of course is what I am talking about.