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The list includes only those facilities under the supervision of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and includes some facilities operated under contract by private entities to TDCJ. 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 ...
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a department of the government of the U.S. state of Texas.The TDCJ is responsible for statewide criminal justice for adult offenders, including managing offenders in state prisons, state jails, and private correctional facilities, funding and certain oversight of community supervision, and supervision of offenders released from prison on ...
www.tdcj.state.tx.us /unit _directory /to.html The Barry B. Telford Unit ( TO ) a.k.a. Telford Unit (opened July 1995) is a Texas state prison located in unincorporated Bowie County , Texas . The facility, along Texas State Highway 98 , is 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Interstate 30 .
The Thomas Goree Unit (GR) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice men's prison, located in Huntsville, Texas, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of downtown Huntsville on Texas State Highway 75 South. The Goree Unit is located within Region I. [ 1 ] First opened in 1911, it served as the only women's correctional facility in Texas until 1982, after the ...
The Louie C. Powledge Unit (B2, originally the Beto II Unit) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison for men located in unincorporated Anderson County, Texas. [1] The approximately 20,518-acre (8,303 ha) unit, co-located with the Beto , Coffield , and Michael prison units and the Gurney Unit transfer facility, is along Farm to ...
Mark W. Stiles Unit is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice men's prison located in an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Texas, [1] near Beaumont.The unit, located along Farm to Market Road 3514, is 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of downtown Beaumont.
Carol S. Vance Unit (J2, previously the Harlem II Unit and the Jester II Unit) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison located in unincorporated central Fort Bend County, Texas, United States. The unit, located in flatlands, [2] is along U.S. Highway 90A, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of central Richmond. [1]
The 12,789 acres (5,176 ha) prison is located on Farm to Market Road 230, [4] near Lovelady and 13 miles (21 km) west of Trinity. [ 2 ] Robert Perkinson, author of Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire , said that while the TDCJ and other agencies operate many types of prisons and jails in Texas, "if any unit stands for the rest," it ...