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  2. Huntsville Unit - Wikipedia

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    Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or Huntsville Unit (HV), nicknamed "Walls Unit", is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States. The approximately 54.36-acre (22.00 ha) facility, near downtown Huntsville, is operated by the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice . [ 1 ]

  3. List of Texas state prisons - Wikipedia

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    The Huntsville Unit in Huntsville is a prison operated by the Correctional Institutions Division; it houses the state execution chamber Allan B. Polunsky Unit, the location of the men's death row Clemens Unit. Eastham Unit; Ellis Unit; W.J. Estelle Unit; Ferguson Unit; Thomas Goree Unit; Huntsville Unit – Texas State Penitentiary at ...

  4. Thomas Goree Unit - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Are citizens’ arrests legal in Texas? State law is blurry and ...

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    Texas law states: “A peace officer or any other person, may, without a warrant, arrest an offender when the offense is committed in his presence or within his view, if the offense is one classed ...

  6. Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate

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    Violent crime rate per 100k population by state (2023) [1] This is a list of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in a population of 100,000 would mean 300 incidents of violent crime per year in that entire population, or 0.3% out of the total.

  8. Fire at a Texas prison forces inmates to evacuate, but no ...

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    The inmates had initially been moved to other areas of the prison in Huntsville, about 65 miles (105 k. Fire broke out Friday morning at a state prison in Texas, forcing more than 650 inmates to ...

  9. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    More than 40 percent of youth offenders sent to one of Florida’s juvenile prisons wind up arrested and convicted of another crime within a year of their release, according to state data. In New York state, where historically no youth offenders have been held in private institutions, 25 percent are convicted again within that timeframe.