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James Byrd Jr. was born on May 2, 1949, [11] in Beaumont, Texas, [12] the third of nine children, to Stella Mae Sharp and James Byrd Sr. [13] His mother was a Sunday School teacher and his father was a deacon at the Greater New Bethel Church. Byrd graduated from Jasper Rowe High School in 1967, the last segregated class. After graduating from ...
The George Beto Unit (B) is a men's maximum security prison of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice located in unincorporated Anderson County, Texas, US. [1] The unit is located along Farm to Market Road 3328 , 6 miles (10 kilometers) south of Tennessee Colony .
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics ' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 2,795 law enforcement agencies, the most of any state.
The escape happened at 2:08 p.m. as Jasper County deputies led Heyward out of a side door and toward a van parked at the rear of the courthouse, which takes inmates to and from the Jasper County ...
On November 28, 2007, correction officers were escorting inmates Mark Snarr (11093-081) and Edgar Garcia (28132-177) to their cells at the USP Beaumont. When they arrived, Snarr and Garcia slipped from their restraints, repeatedly stabbed both correction officers with homemade prison knives known as shanks, and took the officers' cell keys.
In 2021, Bryan Collier, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said that tablets would “fundamentally change” communication for the state’s more than 100,000 prison ...
Randall County Sheriff Chris Forbis speaks about the hard work of the jail employee of the quarter Officer BJ Elrod Thursday at the Randall County Sheriff's Office outside of Amarillo.
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.