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The seven inmates involved in the escape. Top row, left to right, Joseph Garcia, Randy Halprin, Larry James Harper, and Patrick Murphy Jr. Bottom row, left to right, Donald Newbury, George Rivas, and Michael Anthony Rodriguez. The Texas 7 were a group of prisoners who escaped from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, on December 13, 2000.
In the Latrun Prison break, 20 members of the Jewish terrorist group Lehi escaped from Latrun prison camp in Latrun, Mandatory Palestine (now Israel), through a 76 meter long tunnel on the night of 31 October 1943. 97 Italians escaped from Camp 14 at Doonfoot, Ayr, Scotland, on 15 December 1944.
O.B. Ellis Unit. O. B. Ellis Unit (E1, previously Ellis I Unit[1]) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison located in unincorporated Walker County, Texas, [2] 12 miles (19 km) north of Huntsville. The unit, with about 11,427 acres (4,624 ha) of space, now houses up to 2,400 male prisoners. [3] Ellis is situated in a wooded area ...
Jyesha Johnson. September 8, 2024 at 12:08 PM. Houston - A Texas inmate who escaped from the Huntsville Unit was captured in Calallen, Texas, after a statewide search on Sunday. The inmate had ...
Deon J. Hampton. Updated June 23, 2024 at 7:50 PM. A Texas escapee who was serving 20 years in prison was taken into custody after a brief manhunt Sunday. Inmate Kidanny Robles, 33, was shot in ...
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 ...
Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is an American cult leader who is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault following two convictions in 2011. He is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult based in Arizona. [8] The FLDS Church was founded in the early-20th ...
The Huntsville Unit, the location of the siege. The 1974 Huntsville Prison siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974, at the Huntsville Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections in Huntsville, Texas. The standoff was one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in United States history.