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The 1982 Lake Waco Murders refers to the deaths of three teenagers (two females, one male) near Lake Waco in Waco, Texas, in July 1982.The police investigation and criminal trials that followed the murders lasted for more than a decade and resulted in the execution of one man, David Wayne Spence, and life prison sentences for two other men allegedly involved in the crime, Anthony and Gilbert ...
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 prison is located in a 45-minute driving distance ...
Nearby also is the Mountain View Unit, which houses all Texas female inmates on death row. Crain Unit's regular program houses around 1,500 women, and it is one of Texas's main prisons for women. [2] Female prison offenders of the TDCJ are released from this unit. [3] With a capacity of 2,013 inmates, Crain is the TDCJ's largest female prison. [4]
A prison farm (also known as a penal farm) is a large correctional facility where penal labor convicts are forced to work — legally or illegally — on a farm (in the wide sense of a productive unit), usually for manual labor, largely in the open air, such as in agriculture, logging, quarrying, and mining. In the United States, such forced ...
Designated CP. July 30, 1976. Designated RTHL. 1962. The Old Jail Art Center (OJAC) is an art and regional history museum in Albany, Texas. It is housed in a former jail that was completed in 1878. After being replaced by a new jail in 1929, the old jail building was saved from demolition by local author and playwright Robert E. Nail Jr. in 1940.
Family members of inmates at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center told the media and Richland County Council about the conditions that their loved ones experience inside the troubled jail.
Sean "Diddy" Combs is set to appear in court for a bail hearing to determine if he remains in jail until trial.. The music mogul was already denied bail Tuesday after pleading not guilty to sex ...
W. J. "Jim" Estelle Unit. W. J. "Jim" Estelle Unit[1] (E2, originally the Ellis II Unit) also known as the Estelle Supermax Penitentiary, is a prison located on Farm to Market Road 3478 in unincorporated Walker County, Texas, United States, [2] 10 miles (16 km) north of central Huntsville. The prison, with about 5,459 acres (2,209 ha) of space ...