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Jim Ferguson Unit (FE) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for men located in unincorporated Madison County, Texas. The 4,355-acre (1,762 ha) prison is located on Farm to Market Road 247 , near Midway and 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Huntsville .
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 ...
On November 29, 1929, several days after meeting Blanche, Barrow was shot and captured following a burglary in Denton, Texas. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to four years in the Texas State Prison System. On March 8, 1930, Barrow escaped from the Ferguson Prison Farm near Midway, Texas. He simply walked out of the prison, stole a guard ...
A family in Texas City claims their loved one passed of COVID-19 contracted at work but has not been issued benefits. The family of Elizabeth Ann Jones claims after she died of COVID-19 her ...
Federal prison officials were close to canceling the contract in 1992, according to media accounts at the time, but they said conditions at the facility started to improve after frequent inspections. In a federal lawsuit, one LeMarquis employee, Richard Moore, alleged that he had been severely beaten by another employee – at the direction of ...
In Texas, there were 50 prison suicides in 2020, the highest number in at least 20 years, even though the prison population fell by 20,000. By late July, 2021 was on track to exceed that.
Midway is a city in northeastern Madison County, Texas, United States, at the junction of the La Bahía Road (now Texas State Highway 21) and the Old San Antonio Road (Texas State Highway OSR). Midway was the birthplace of George McJunkin , who was born a slave.
The execution of a Texas inmate condemned for fatally shooting an 80-year-old woman more than two decades ago was set to proceed Tuesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court ...