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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 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 ...
Denton County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 906,422, making it the seventh-most populous county in Texas. [1] The county seat is Denton. [2] The county, which was named for John B. Denton, was established in 1846. Denton County constitutes part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. In 2007, it ...
The initial census was 65 residents, mostly female. At its peak Austin State School had a census of 2,000 and included a working dairy farm. In 1965, the Texas Mental Health and Mentally Challenged Act authorized county mentally challenged centers, with the aim of helping people with mild mental disabilities to live with their families.
A YSI facility in Palm Beach County had the highest rate of reported sexual assaults out of 36 facilities reviewed in Florida, the Bureau of Justice Statistics report found. The state’s sweeping privatization of its juvenile incarceration system has produced some of the worst re-offending rates in the nation.
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 ...
Austin County and Grimes County: Edwin Waller (1800–1881), a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the first mayor of Austin, Texas: 63,553: 514 sq mi (1,331 km 2) Ward County: 475: Monahans: 1887: Tom Green County: Thomas William Ward, a commissioner for the General Land Office of Texas and mayor of Austin, Texas 10,966: 836 sq ...
The state of Texas purchased the prison farm property in 1885 or 1886. Previously several private plantations based here used convict leasing for labor. [ 8 ] This system has been called "slavery by another name", as lessees operated with little oversight by the state as to their treatment of convicts. [ 9 ]