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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 ...
Aerial photograph of the Goree Unit, January 23, 1995, U.S. Geological Survey Topographical map of the Goree Unit, July 1, 1976, U.S. Geological Survey The Thomas Goree Unit (GR) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice men's prison, located in Huntsville, Texas, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of downtown Huntsville on Texas State Highway 75 South.
It was previously the only unit for women in West Texas. In 1997 the TDCJ proposed changing it into a men's unit. [1] T.L. Roach, Jr. Unit (Includes a Boot Camp) Preston E. Smith Unit; Daniel Webster Wallace Unit; Region VI Crain Unit (Female) (Formerly the Gatesville Unit) Hilltop Unit (Female) William P. Hobby Unit (Female) Alfred D. Hughes ...
Inmate Name Register Number Status Details Shawn Allen Berry 04693746 / 00894758 Serving a life sentence. Eligible for parole in 2038. Participated, along with Lawrence Brewer and John King, in the brutal 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr., in which Byrd was chained to a truck, and his body was dragged with the moving vehicle. [14] [15] [16] [17]
Inmate Name Register Number Status Details Shannon Miles 07462349 / 02150490 Serving a life sentence without parole. Perpetrator of the 2015 Murder of Darren Goforth, in which Miles killed him at a gas station. [9] [10] [11] Richard Acosta Jr. Life without parole Capital murder multiple persons
The prison opened in March 1990. [2] It was named after Governor of Texas William P. Clements.. In June 2013, according to a report surveying 92,449 adult inmates in 606 prisons, jails, and special confinement facilities from February 2011 to May 2012 by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, of the prisons holding men the Clements Unit had the eighth-highest rate of inmates who reported that ...
Taylor (TDCJ #765153 as a non-death row inmate) was serving a life sentence for aggravated robbery; [5] The prisoner stated that the stabbing was self-defense. [2] However Taylor was sentenced to death, [5] and moved to the Polunsky Unit. [6] He (TDCJ #999344 as a death row inmate) was executed at the Huntsville Unit on June 16, 2011. [7]
The prison opened in September 1983. [3] The Terrell Unit was originally the Ramsey III Unit.After the previous Terrell Unit (now the Polunsky Unit) in West Livingston, Texas [6] began to receive death row inmates, the facility's namesake, a Dallas insurance executive named Charles Terrell, wanted his name off of the prison; as a result his name was transferred to another prison.