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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.
Texas.gov Announces Online Commissary Purchases and Deposits for Texas Offenders Friends ... and the ability to buy specific commissary items for the offender. This service is quickly gaining ...
Hilltop is the hub of the six prisons in Gatesville. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) described it as "a true prison farm" that "fittingly serves as the headquarters for the area’s agricultural operations." The unit has pigs fed on feeder slabs and sixty horses used by field officers from surrounding prison units.
The prison, with about 8,008 acres (3,241 ha), is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 2004 and Texas State Highway 36. [2] The prison, in the Texas Gulf Coast region, [3] is in proximity to the City of Brazoria, [4] and it is in proximity to the Velasco community, now a part of Freeport. [5] The prison is situated south of ...
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 ...
Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit (formerly the Mountain View Unit) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison housing female offenders in Gatesville, Texas. The unit, with about 97 acres (39 ha) of land, is located 4 miles (6.4 km) north of central Gatesville on Farm to Market Road 215 . [ 1 ]
The facility is located off of Farm to Market Road 645, 7 miles (11 km) west of Palestine. [2] The unit opened in July 1982 as the Beto II Unit. [3] It was originally named after former Texas Department of Corrections (TDC) head George Beto. [4] Construction of the bus repair facility began in October 1982 and ended in October 1984.
Oct. 25—The New Mexico Corrections Department has chosen a new vendor to provide commissary services for the nearly 6,000 inmates in the state's 11 prisons. But Keefe Commissary Network, the ...