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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. 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.

  4. 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]

  5. Youth detention center - Wikipedia

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    Harris County Juvenile Detention Center, Houston, Texas In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), [1] juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, or more colloquially as juvie/juvy or the Juvey Joint, also sometimes referred to as observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they ...

  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. Tarrant County Corrections Center - Wikipedia

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    The Tarrant County Corrections Center was constructed in 1990 because of overcrowding in nearby prisons. Completion of the prison was reportedly delayed by several causes, mainly issues with budgeting. [1] Upon completion, the building was the first fully functional direct-supervision jail in Texas.

  8. Beauford H. Jester Complex - Wikipedia

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    In 1925 the prison farm had 5,005 acres (2,025 ha) of land. During that year it had 260 prisoners. The complex was renamed in the 1950s after Governor of Texas Beauford H. Jester. [8] A spur track of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway opened at the prison farm to load and unload sugarcane that was produced at the farm. The ...

  9. 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 ...