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The 1200 Jail, the headquarters of the agency. The Harris County Sheriff's Office's correction facilities are located in Downtown Houston, all within a block of one another. [10] They include the 1200 Jail (located at 1200 Baker Street), [11] the 701 Jail, [12] and the 1307 Jail. [13] Previously 1301 Franklin and 301 San Jacinto were jails. [14 ...
By January 2012 the Harris County jails had 8,573, a decrease by 31% from 2008 to 2012, and there were only 21 inmates serving time in other jail facilities, all in Texas. [10] The jail population increased since the Texas Legislature cut its community mental health services funding by $400 million in 2003. Between 2004 and 2009 the population ...
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a department of the government of the U.S. state of Texas.The TDCJ is responsible for statewide criminal justice for adult offenders, including managing offenders in state prisons, state jails, and private correctional facilities, funding and certain oversight of community supervision, and supervision of offenders released from prison on ...
The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) is an agency of the Government of Texas. Headquartered in the William Clements State Office Building in Downtown Austin , the agency oversees county jails to ensure standards of construction and operation.
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.
In March 2017, Kotak Mahindra Bank launched an online savings account called Kotak 811, [26] named after the date Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced demonetisation in the previous year (8 November), which according to Uday Kotak was "the day that changed India." [27] [28] Kotak 811 helped the bank double its number of customers by ...
Commissary list, circa 2013. A prison commissary [1] or canteen [2] is a store within a correctional facility, from which inmates may purchase products such as hygiene items, snacks, writing instruments, etc. Typically inmates are not allowed to possess cash; [3] instead, they make purchases through an account with funds from money contributed by friends, family members, etc., or earned as wages.
The J. Dale Wainwright Unit is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison for men, located in unincorporated Houston County, Texas. [1] [2] Formerly called the Eastham Unit or "The Ham," the prison was renamed the J. Dale Wainwright Unit after a former chairman of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. [3]