They say everything is bigger in Texas. That must even apply their prison inmates.

The 500 pound man, arrested for selling illegal copies of compact discs was also charged with possession of a firearm, after he told a guard in the Harris County Correctional facility about the unloaded 9mm handgun he had hidden on his person.

The officers found the gun, after the inmate was originally searched at the city jail and then the county facility, tucked away under a roll of skin …