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The Ruben M. Torres Unit is a state prison for men located in Hondo, Medina County, Texas, owned and operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [1] This facility was opened in January 1993, and a maximum capacity of 1384 male inmates held at various security levels. Stand-up comedian Ali Siddiq have been locked up in there.
The Huntsville Unit in Huntsville is a prison operated by the Correctional Institutions Division; it houses the state execution chamber Allan B. Polunsky Unit, the location of the men's death row Clemens Unit. Eastham Unit; Ellis Unit; W.J. Estelle Unit; Ferguson Unit; Thomas Goree Unit; Huntsville Unit – Texas State Penitentiary at ...
Hondo is located approximately 40 miles (64 km) west of Downtown San Antonio. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.6 square miles (25 km 2), of which, 9.6 square miles (25 km 2) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2) of it (0.21%) is covered with water.
[10] [11] He was convicted of "delivery of a controlled substance" and served six years of a 15-year sentence in the Ruben M. Torres Unit in Hondo, Texas. [12] [3] He was released from prison on October 21, 1997. [13] Following his release, he worked at a department store and at a sunglasses shop. [6]
In 1885 the state opened Harlem I Unit and Harlem II Unit. [11] [12] From July 20, 1888 to August 31, 1907 a post office was located on the prison farm. After the post office closed, the post office in Richmond, Texas handled mail for the prison farm. [13] In 1908 the State of Texas bought the Riddick Plantation, which was next to the Harlem ...
Michael Torres, a Mexican Mafia member who oversaw gangs in the San Fernando Valley and controlled drug and extortion rackets in the Los Angeles County jail system, was stabbed to death in prison.
The unit was named after Governor of Texas Beauford H. Jester. [9] Carol Vance, a former Harris County district attorney and the chairperson of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, asked state officials to implement the first Christian faith-based prison program at Jester II. State officials began to implement the program in 1996. [3]
Following the State of Texas' controversial convictions of the two former officers, the Torres case was reviewed at the federal level by the U.S. Department of Justice, which led to three of the officers' federal convictions for violating Torres' civil rights. Torres' murder generated significant newspaper coverage across the United States.