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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.
It is housed on the second and third floors of the 1955 Ector County Courthouse at 301 N. Texas Street in Odessa. The center was previously operated by Community Education Centers, one of seven CEC-managed facilities in Texas, under contract with three federal agencies: the United States Marshals Service, U.S. Immigration and Customs ...
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 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 ...
Drug overdoses nearly doubled at a privately run prison where inmates said it was “easy” to get hold of illegal substances, The Independent can reveal.. HMP Forest Bank, a category B jail in ...
At least 200 people sentenced to die since 1973 were later exonerated, including 18 in Texas, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Lucio is one of seven women on death row in Texas ...
The Tarrant County Corrections Center (TCCC) is a detention center located in Downtown Fort Worth in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. Designed to house prisoners either awaiting trial, transfer or serving short jail sentences, the structure handles both male and female inmates.
Port Isabel was built in 1950 and added a new building in 2007. The facility holds about 1,200 detainees, and intake approximately 9,500 detainees per year. [1] Unarmed guards at Port Isabel receive 67 hours of training and Armed guards get an extra eight hours of firearms instruction.