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The Preston E. Smith Unit is a state prison for men located in Lamesa, Dawson County, Texas, owned and operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [1] This facility was opened in October 1992, and a maximum capacity of 2234 male inmates held at various security levels. The prison was named for Texas governor Preston Smith.
The state lawmakers, as well, had wanted the prison closed because the State of Texas had a decrease in its state jail population. Texas Senator John Whitmire advocated for closing Dawson and the Mineral Wells Pre-Parole Transfer Facility in late 2012. In May 2013 the state government moved to end the $97 million budget for the facility as a ...
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Harris County Jail, the largest jail in Texas, plans to deploy tablets to all of the people they house — roughly 10,000 — by the end of the year, officials said.
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 ...
In Dawson’s death, Sparger was ordered held on $5 million bond on a capital murder charge in Hunt County, according to jail records. It could not immediately be determined whether he had legal ...
Dawson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 12,456. [1] [2] The county seat is Lamesa. [3]The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1905. [4]
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.