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[1] [2] Formerly called the Eastham Unit or "The Ham," the prison was renamed the J. Dale Wainwright Unit after a former chairman of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. [3] The 12,789 acres (5,176 ha) prison is located on Farm to Market Road 230 , [ 4 ] near Lovelady and 13 miles (21 km) west of Trinity .
Texas State Highway 19 runs through the center of town as Commerce Street, leading north 14 miles (23 km) to Crockett, the county seat, and south the same distance to Trinity. According to the United States Census Bureau, Lovelady has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2), of which 0.01 square miles (0.02 km 2), or 0.44%, are water. [4]
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]
In 2008, Tabler prompted a massive lockdown at the 150,000-inmate prison when he smuggled a cellphone into the facility and began making death-threat phone calls to then-state Sen. John Whitmire ...
The Huntsville Unit in Huntsville is a prison operated by the Correctional Institutions Division; it houses the state execution chamber Allan B. Polunsky Unit, the location of the men's death row Clemens Unit. Eastham Unit; Ellis Unit; W.J. Estelle Unit; Ferguson Unit; Thomas Goree Unit; Huntsville Unit – Texas State Penitentiary at ...
Hernandez said most inmates have access to a tablet from 5 a.m. to midnight every day, and they can still make phone calls from pay phones in the prison. Inmates with certain disciplinary ...
Charles Harrelson was born on July 23, 1938, in Lovelady, Texas, [3] the son of Alma Lee (née Sparks; 1907–2002) and Voyde Harrelson (1901–1976). He was married to Nancy Hillman Harrelson, Diane Lou Oswald, Jo Ann Harrelson, and Gina Adelle Foster. Harrelson worked as an encyclopedia salesman in California, and as a professional gambler.
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 ...