106.5 FM: the prison radio station giving Texas men on death row a voice

The Tank at Allan B Polunsky Unit allows the most isolated men a rare chance to be part of the prison community

As soon as I drive past the East Tempe Church on the outskirts of Livingston, Texas, I can hear the laugh track on my radio. It's from Martin," a three-decade-old television sitcom. The fictional Detroiters' racy wisecracks seem incongruous crackling through my car speakers on a winding country road.

When the laughter dies down, the slight Southern lilt of a DJ named Megamind" cuts in to introduce the next segment.