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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 Christina Melton Crain Unit (formerly the Gatesville Unit) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for females in Gatesville, Texas. The prison is along Texas State Highway 36 , 3 miles (4.8 km) north of central Gatesville.
The Live Oak, [4] Riverside, [3] Sycamore, [5] Riverside, Terrace, and Valley schools of the Gatesville State School became the Gatesville Unit (now the Christina Crain Unit). [3] The unit, which opened in April 1981, [1] originally housed men. [3] The unit was named "Hilltop" because the prison is in the highest point of the surrounding area. [6]
Aerial photograph of the prisons in Gatesville, January 13, 1996, United States Geological Survey Topographical map of the Gatesville prison units, 1994, USGS - The area now contains the Murray Unit. Dr. Lane Murray Unit is a women's prison of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice located in Gatesville, Texas.
It does not include federal prisons or county jails, nor does it include the North Texas State Hospital; though the facility houses those classified as "criminally insane" (such as Andrea Yates) the facility is under the supervision of the Texas Department of State Health Services. Facilities listed are for males unless otherwise stated.
The Linda Woodman State Jail is a state jail operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The prison is named after Linda Woodman who served as warden of the Gatesville Unit and a survivor of the 1974 Huntsville Prison siege .
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 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 ]