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  2. Thomas Green Clemson - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Green Clemson (July 1, 1807 – April 6, 1888) was an American politician and statesman, serving as Chargés d'Affaires to Belgium, and United States Superintendent of Agriculture. He served in the Confederate Army and founded Clemson University in South Carolina. Historians have called Clemson "a quintessential nineteenth-century ...

  3. Clemens Unit - Wikipedia

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    Clemens Unit ( CN) is a prison farm of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) in unincorporated Brazoria County, Texas, [ 1] in Greater Houston. The prison, with about 8,008 acres (3,241 ha), is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 2004 and Texas State Highway 36. [ 2] The prison, in the Texas Gulf Coast region, [ 3] is ...

  4. Huntsville Unit - Wikipedia

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    Huntsville Unit. / 30.722027; -95.545596. Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or Huntsville Unit ( HV ), nicknamed " Walls Unit ", is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States. The approximately 54.36-acre (22.00 ha) facility, near downtown Huntsville, is operated by the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas ...

  5. List of Texas state prisons - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Penal labor in the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In the United States, penal labor is a multi-billion-dollar industry. [ 1] Annually, incarcerated workers provide at least $9 billion in services to the prison system and produce more than $2 billion in goods. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The industry underwent many transitions throughout the late 19th and early and mid 20th centuries.

  8. History of United States prison systems - Wikipedia

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    This led to uprisings of state prisons across the eastern border states of America. Newgate State Prison in Greenwich Village was built in 1796, New Jersey added its prison facility in 1797, Virginia and Kentucky in 1800, and Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maryland followed soon after. Americans were in favour of reform in the early 1800s.

  9. Clemson University - Wikipedia

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    Fort Hill, photographed in 1887, was the home of John C. Calhoun and later Thomas Green Clemson and is at the center of the university campus.. Thomas Green Clemson, the university's founder, came to the foothills of South Carolina in 1838, when he married Anna Maria Calhoun, daughter of John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina politician and seventh U.S. Vice President. [15]