Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Gatesville is a city in and the county seat of Coryell County, Texas, United States.Its population was 16,135 at the 2020 census. [4] The city has five of the nine prisons and state jails for women operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [5]
Coryell County (/ ˈ k ɔːr j ɛ l / KOR-yel) [1] is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 83,093. [2] [3] The county seat is Gatesville. [4] The county is named for James Coryell, a frontiersman and Texas Ranger who was killed by Caddo Indians.
Gatesville, which served as the main juvenile detention facility for Texas since its opening, had a focus on labor instead of rehabilitation. Throughout the state school's history the state government did not appropriate sufficient funds, and the dormitories became overcrowded.
The Coryell County Courthouse is an historic building located at Courthouse Square in Gatesville, Texas, the seat of Coryell County. Built in 1897–98, it was the county's third courthouse; Architect Wesley Clark Dodson, A designer of many Civil Buildings in Texas, designed the Beaux Arts building. In his design, Dodson modified the ...
The fort was located on the north bank of the Leon River about five miles east of the site of present Gatesville, Texas. The installation was named for Brevet Major Collinson Reed Gates of New York, a noted officer in the Battle of Palo Alto and the Battle of Resaca de la Palma.
Alfred D. Hughes Unit is a prison for men of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice located in Gatesville, Texas. The prison is named after Al Hughes who served as a chairperson on the Texas Board of Corrections from 1985 to 1989. The 390 acres (160 ha) facility is located along Farm to Market Road 929, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Texas Loop ...
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 ]
In 2008 the Texas Board of Criminal Justice unanimously voted to rename the Gatesville Unit after Christina Melton Crain, the first female chairperson of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. On that day the name change became effective immediately. [2] Crain, a resident of the Preston Hollow area of Dallas, [10] worked as a lawyer. She left the ...