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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.
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 ...
Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or Huntsville Unit (HV), nicknamed "Walls Unit", is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States.The approximately 54.36-acre (22.00 ha) facility, near downtown Huntsville, is operated by the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [1]
Lopatka first met Glass in August 1996 while in a pornographic chat room. [1] Through email, Lopatka presented Glass her fetish of being tortured, while he sent messages about how he would fulfill her fantasy. [1] Police discovered close to 900 pages of emails between the two during the investigation of Lopatka's death. [1]
The prison is located on Farm to Market Road 655, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Farm to Market Road 521, [3] ... Prisoners may pay the State of Texas after their release. [9]
A special state monitoring report from October 1998 found medical records showing “instances of youth being bitten by spiders and rodents.” Monitors from the state also found that Correctional Services Corp. officials were holding youth past their scheduled release dates in an effort to generate more revenue — a serious violation of the ...
All the cases were found to be inconclusive. Even in state-run facilities, outside authorities found that cases of abuse went undocumented. The U.S. Justice Department’s civil rights division noted many concerns about state oversight in an investigation of a violence-ridden state juvenile prison in north Florida two years ago.
The Central Unit (C, previously the Imperial State Prison Farm and the Central State Prison Farm) was a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) men's prison in Sugar Land, Texas. The approximately 325.8-acre (131.8 ha) facility is 2 miles (3.2 km) from the central part of the city of Sugar Land on U.S. Highway 90A .