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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 "criminally insane" (such as Andrea Yates) the facility is under the supervision of the Texas Department of State Health Services. Facilities listed are for males unless otherwise stated.
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 ...
Crain's Reception Center is the place where new female arrivals to the TDCJ are processed. In addition the center houses a boot camp program. [13] The 174 bed Valley Unit houses pregnant, elderly, and developmentally delayed prisoners. [14] As of 1993 72 beds are reserved for the mentally retarded. [12] In addition Valley houses the prison ...
Goree Unit. The Goree Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, was named in honor of TJ Goree in 1935. The unit houses the state's Sex Offender Treatment Program and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
The facilities include the co-gender Galveston Hospital for prisoners in Galveston [31] and the Young Medical Facility Complex for females in Texas City. [32] Hospital Galveston began contracting for medical treatment of prisoners in 1983. [33] Young opened in 1996 as the Texas City Regional Medical Unit. [34]
At a Florida Correctional Services Corp. facility called Cypress Creek, north of Tampa, six juveniles escaped between 2000 and 2001. In 2001, at a youth prison run by the company in Nevada, juvenile inmates rioted and took over the facility.
United States Army Corrections Command operated facilities [1] United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas; Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility, Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas; Northwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Fort Lewis, Washington
After a prisoner named Rodney Hulin fatally injured himself at the Clemens Unit, he was transferred to the Hospital Galveston Unit and then the Ellis Unit. Hulin died in the Ellis Unit in 1997. [9] In November 1998, [10] six condemned men were absent from their cells for several hours and then coordinated an escape attempt. [11]