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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 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. It has a "New Boston, Texas" mailing address, [1] and is in proximity to Texarkana. [2]
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 ...
A string of fires, riots, escapes, conflicts and legal action throughout 1996 and 1997 caused the Texas Commission on Jail Standards to step in and enforce state standards at the institution in February 1998. That March Oklahoma pulled out its 134 inmates. In May the Bobby Ross Group was fired and replaced by Correctional Services Corporation ...
William McKinney 6 November 2014: Buckner Police Department (Illinois) While responding to a dispute, McKinney struck 62-year-old Roy Barnhart in the head. Barnhart was treated for a head injury and brain bleed, but died a few days later. McKinney took a plea deal for official misconduct. [97] 14 March 2012: Randy Trent Harrison 26 November 2013
The Texas Board of Criminal Justice approved the relocation of the men's death row on Friday May 21, 1999. [15] In 1999 the male death row was relocated to the Polunsky Unit (originally known as the Terrell Unit) in West Livingston, Texas. The first 55 inmates, all classified as being disruptive, were moved on Friday June 18, 1999. [16]
O'Neal pleaded guilty in July, was assigned inmate number 44097-177, and was released in April 2013. [1] In October 2012, inmate Phillip Monroe Ballard, 71, was charged with soliciting the murder-for-hire of U.S. District Judge John McBryde from FCI Fort Worth. The indictment alleges that Ballard, who was scheduled to go on trial for tax ...
Allan B. Polunsky Unit houses the State of Texas death row for men. Huntsville Unit , where Garcia was executed Gustavo Julian Garcia Jr. [ 1 ] (September 27, 1972 [ 2 ] – February 16, 2016) was an American prisoner from McKinney, Texas , who was executed for the 1990 murder of Craig Turski.