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Gregorio Cortez Lira was born in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, [13] near the U.S.-Mexico border, the son of Roman Cortez Garza, a rancher, and Rosalia Lira Cortinas. In 1887, the Cortez family moved to Manor, Texas near Austin.
Bostick State Prison: 2010 Georgia State Prison: 2022 Homerville State Prison 2009 Men's State Prison: 2011 Metro State Prison: 2011 Milan State Prison 2008 Rivers State Prison 2008 Scott State Prison 2009 Thomas County Prison 2017 Troup County Correctional Institution 2017 Wayne State Prison 2008
Rio Grande Detention Center is a privately owned prison for men located in Laredo, Webb County, Texas, operated by GEO Group under contract with the U.S. government Office of the Federal Detention Trustee. The prison was originally built in 2007, opened in 2008, and has an official capacity of 1900 federal detainees awaiting trial. [1]
This is a list of detention facilities holding illegal immigrants in the United States.The United States maintains the largest illegal immigrant detention camp infrastructure in the world, which by the end of the fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or contracted with the federal government, according to the Freedom of Information Act Office of the U.S. Immigration and ...
The State of Georgia passed a rewritten death penalty law in 1973. In 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Georgia death penalty was constitutional. [19] In June 1980 the site of execution was moved to GDCP, and a new electric chair was installed in place of the original one. The original chair was put on display at the Georgia State Prison.
In 1990, Hill murdered another inmate with a nail-studded board at Lee State Prison in Leesburg, Georgia. Hill was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by lethal injection for his second murder. [21] On January 27, 2015, Hill was executed by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia.
The men halted a Denver & Rio Grande train and stole thousands of dollars and gold. [25] Monroe Junction, Florida: 11 May, 1892 4 unknown men A train belonging to The West Indian Fast Mail was stopped north of Monroe Junction, two of the men forced the fireman and train engineer, a man known only as Dumas, to stop the train.
Nathaniel had a market in what is now Rio Grande City, Texas (about 50 miles west of the ranch). [13] The Jacksons also engaged in trade across the Rio Grande, [1] transporting goods and people across the river in their ferry. [16] Each year, Nathaniel and Matilda Hicks Jackson hosted a "Revival" after the harvest. Temporary homes were built ...