The Byrd State Cemetery, where inmates who die in the custody of the State of Texas and have no families to claim their bodies are buried in pauper's graves. In the older parts of the grounds, the bodies are identified only by their state-issued serial numbers.
I volunteer some of my time working with inmates at one of the nearby prisons, and I captured this while in the area preparing to go in with an outreach team. As I was preparing to leave, just after sunrise, an inmate work crew showed up under armed guard with a backhoe and other equipment to begin preparing a fresh grave.
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