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Alfred D. Hughes Unit is a prison for men of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice located in Gatesville, Texas. The prison is named after Al Hughes who served as a chairperson on the Texas Board of Corrections from 1985 to 1989. The 390 acres (160 ha) facility is located along Farm to Market Road 929, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Texas Loop ...
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.
Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit (formerly the Mountain View Unit) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison housing female offenders in Gatesville, Texas. The unit, with about 97 acres (39 ha) of land, is located 4 miles (6.4 km) north of central Gatesville on Farm to Market Road 215 . [ 1 ]
Nearby also is the Mountain View Unit, which houses all Texas female inmates on death row. Crain Unit's regular program houses around 1,500 women, and it is one of Texas's main prisons for women. [2] Female prison offenders of the TDCJ are released from this unit. [3] With a capacity of 2,013 inmates, Crain is the TDCJ's largest female prison. [4]
Gatesville is a city in and the county seat of Coryell County, Texas, United States.Its population was 16,135 at the 2020 census. [4] The city has five of the nine prisons and state jails for women operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [5]
Aerial photograph of the prisons in Gatesville, January 13, 1996, United States Geological Survey Topographical map of the Gatesville prison units, 1994, USGS - The area now contains the Murray Unit. Dr. Lane Murray Unit is a women's prison of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice located in Gatesville, Texas.
Texas is building a military base camp in the city of Eagle Pass near the U.S.-Mexico border, part of a broader effort by the state's Republican Governor Greg Abbott to deter illegal immigration.
The Live Oak, [4] Riverside, [3] Sycamore, [5] Riverside, Terrace, and Valley schools of the Gatesville State School became the Gatesville Unit (now the Christina Crain Unit). [3] The unit, which opened in April 1981, [1] originally housed men. [3] The unit was named "Hilltop" because the prison is in the highest point of the surrounding area. [6]