Correspondence, pleadings, exhibits, motions, reports, orders, plans, and official publications relate to the work of the Office of the Special Master, created to oversee compliance with and implementation of the rulings of the federal courts in the landmark case of Ruiz et al. v. State of Texas. Also included are trial transcripts and exhibits in the Ruiz case from the law office of attorney William Bennett Turner, as well as a large body of prison medical testimony.