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  2. Texas Youth Commission - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Youth Commission (TYC) was a Texas state agency which operated juvenile corrections facilities in the state. The commission was headquartered in the Brown-Heatly Building in Austin . As of 2007, it was the second largest juvenile corrections agency in the United States, after the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice . [ 1 ]

  3. List of Texas state prisons - Wikipedia

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    Bowie County Unit [2] Central Unit (Closed 2011) Dickens County Unit [2] Don Hutto Unit [2] Jefferson County Unit [2] Gregg County Unit [2] Limestone County Unit [2] North Texas Intermediate Sanctions Facility (closed 2011) Retrieve Unit (later Wayne Scott Unit) - Main prison closed in 2020 [4] Western Regional Medical Unit [2]

  4. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    The company also hired James C. Poland, who had worked in the Texas prison system, where Esmor was angling for new contracts. All of these recruits positioned the company for winnings. In 1994, Slattery and his partners cashed in with an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange valued at $5.2 million.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Texas woman gets 50 years in prison for abandoning kids with ...

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    A Texas woman was sentenced to 50 years in prison Tuesday for watching her 8-year-old son be murdered and then making three of her other children live with the decomposing body. Gloria Williams ...

  7. Giles W. Dalby Correctional Institution - Wikipedia

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    The Giles W. Dalby Correctional Institution was a privately operated jail located in Post, Garza County, Texas, operated by the Management and Training Corporation under contract with the state of Texas [1] The facility is owned by the county. It opened in 1999, houses state detainees, and has a working capacity of 1776.

  8. Retrieve Unit - Wikipedia

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    The Retrieve Unit [1] (TDCJ code: RV), later the Wayne Scott Unit, [2] was a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison farm located in unincorporated Brazoria County, Texas. [3] [4] The unit, southwest of Houston, [5] is along County Road 290, 8 miles (13 km) south of Angleton. Scott, which was established in September 1919, has about ...

  9. Coffield Unit - Wikipedia

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    The H. H. Coffield Unit (CO) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for men in unincorporated Anderson County, Texas. [1] The prison, near Tennessee Colony, is along Farm to Market Road 2054. The unit, on a 20,518 acres (8,303 ha) plot of land, is co-located with Beto, Gurney, Michael, and Powledge units. [2]