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Aerial photograph of the Wynne, Holliday, and Byrd units, and the Huntsville Municipal Airport - U.S. Geological Survey - January 23, 1995 The John M. Wynne Unit (WY) is a men's prison of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, [1] located in northern Huntsville, Texas, at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 2821 West and Texas State Highway 75 North. [2]
This is a list of state prisons in Texas. 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.
The James V. Allred Unit [1] is a prison for males located on Farm to Market Road 369 in Wichita Falls, Texas, United States, [2] 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of downtown Wichita Falls. [3] [4] The prison is near Iowa Park. [5] The prison, with about 320 acres (130 ha) of land, is a part of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Region V. [3]
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 ...
Five former inmates at an Arkansas county jail have settled their lawsuit against a doctor who they said gave them the antiparasitic drug ivermectin to fight COVID-19 without their consent. A ...
Holliday, an industrial-scale complex, has sheet metal siding and low sloping roofs. Robert Perkinson, author of Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire, said that the "hastily-constructed" transfer unit "looks like an assemblage of discount tire outlets," and that the only features that indicate that it is a prison is the razor wire and guard towers.
Another ongoing issue in U.S. prisons is the sexual abuse of adult inmates. Thousands of inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate incidents were reported from 2016 through 2018, according to a special ...
Huntsville Unit's yard during the 1870s. The prison's first inmates arrived on October 2, 1849. [5] The unit was named after the County of Huntsville. [6] Robert Perkinson, the author of Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire, wrote that the unit was, within Texas, "the first public work of any importance".