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  2. List of Texas state prisons - Wikipedia

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    Bowie County Unit [2] Central Unit (Closed 2011) Dickens County Unit [2] Don Hutto Unit [2] Jefferson County Unit [2] Gregg County Unit [2] Limestone County Unit [2] North Texas Intermediate Sanctions Facility (closed 2011) Retrieve Unit (later Wayne Scott Unit) - Main prison closed in 2020 [4] Western Regional Medical Unit [2]

  3. Texas Youth Commission - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Youth Commission (TYC) was a Texas state agency which operated juvenile corrections facilities in the state. The commission was headquartered in the Brown-Heatly Building in Austin . As of 2007, it was the second largest juvenile corrections agency in the United States, after the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice . [ 1 ]

  4. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    The company also hired James C. Poland, who had worked in the Texas prison system, where Esmor was angling for new contracts. All of these recruits positioned the company for winnings. In 1994, Slattery and his partners cashed in with an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange valued at $5.2 million.

  5. Federal Correctional Institution, Texarkana - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Correctional Institution, Texarkana (FCI Texarkana), is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Bowie County, Texas. [1] It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp for minimum ...

  6. Youth detention center - Wikipedia

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    Harris County Juvenile Detention Center, Houston, Texas In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), [1] juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, or more colloquially as juvie/juvy or the Juvey Joint, also sometimes referred to as observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they ...

  7. Texas woman gets 50 years in prison for abandoning kids with ...

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    A Texas woman was sentenced to 50 years in prison Tuesday for watching her 8-year-old son be murdered and then making three of her other children live with the decomposing body. Gloria Williams ...

  8. List of jails and prisons on the National Register of ...

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    Bowie County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Boston, Texas; Old Cameron County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Brownsville, Texas; Brown County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Brownwood, Texas; Bosque County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Meridian, Texas; Anderson County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Palestine, Texas; Coke County Jail, listed on the NRHP in ...

  9. Texas Prison Museum - Wikipedia

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    Other exhibits include a life-size replica of a prison cell and a display of the Texas prison rodeo. The museum also has a large display of artwork, woodwork, and more created by prisoners. The museum was founded in 1989 and originally located in downtown Huntsville. [3] It moved to its current location northwest of town (on Texas State Highway ...