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This is a list of state prisons in Texas. The list includes only those facilities under the supervision of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and includes some facilities operated under contract by private entities to TDCJ.
The Tarrant County Corrections Center was constructed in 1990 because of overcrowding in nearby prisons. Completion of the prison was reportedly delayed by several causes, mainly issues with budgeting. [1] Upon completion, the building was the first fully functional direct-supervision jail in Texas.
The prison, with about 320 acres (130 ha) of land, is a part of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Region V. [3] It opened in June 1995 and is one of the largest maximum security units in Texas housing approximately 3600 offenders. It consists of four departments, General Population, Administrative segregation and one of the first ...
Two county jail guards have been indicted on murder charges for the asphyxiation death of an inmate in Texas. The indictments, dated Tuesday, charge Joel Garcia, 48, and Rafael Moreno Jr., 37, in ...
On April 6, 2010, two inmates, Jose Bustos-Diaz and Octavio Ramos Lopez escaped from the prison. Ramos Lopez was later captured four months later, he was found with 150 pounds of cocaine. Bustos-Diaz, who was serving a 35 year sentence for the murder of Deborah Kay in 2005, remains at large and is currently wanted by the U.S. Marshals. [3] [4] [5]
Lorenzo is located in western Crosby County on U.S. Routes 62 and 82 and State Highways 114 and 378. It is 20 miles (32 km) east of Lubbock and 17 miles (27 km) west of Crosbyton, the Crosby County seat. According to the United States Census Bureau, Lorenzo has a total area of 0.97 square miles (2.5 km 2), all land. [5]
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency in the 1,118 square miles (2,900 km 2) of unincorporated area of Harris County, serving as the equivalent of the county police for the approximately 1,071,485 people living in the unincorporated areas of the county. In Texas, sheriffs and their deputies are fully empowered ...
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office is a law enforcement agency serving the citizens of Montgomery County, Texas. The 2010 census put Montgomery County's population at 455,746. [1] A new estimate from 2019 places the population at 607,391. [2] There are over 500 sworn deputies, with an additional 350 civilian support employees. [3]