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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 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 ...
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 ...
In 2021, Bryan Collier, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said that tablets would “fundamentally change” communication for the state’s more than 100,000 prison ...
Seven Texas inmates currently on federal death row were among the 37 inmates that had their sentences commuted to life in prison by President Joe Biden on Monday.
The Federal Correctional Institution, Big Spring (FCI Big Spring) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Texas. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has a satellite prison camp which houses minimum-security male offenders.
W. J. "Jim" Estelle Unit [1] (E2, originally the Ellis II Unit) also known as the Estelle Supermax Penitentiary, is a prison located on Farm to Market Road 3478 in unincorporated Walker County, Texas, United States, [2] 10 miles (16 km) north of central Huntsville.