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The Christina Melton Crain Unit (formerly the Gatesville Unit) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for females in Gatesville, Texas. The prison is along Texas State Highway 36 , 3 miles (4.8 km) north of central Gatesville.
Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit (formerly the Mountain View Unit) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison housing female offenders in Gatesville, Texas. The unit, with about 97 acres (39 ha) of land, is located 4 miles (6.4 km) north of central Gatesville on Farm to Market Road 215 . [ 1 ]
The Christina Crain Unit prison (formerly Gatesville Unit), [20] the Hilltop Unit prison, [21] the Dr. Lane Murray Unit prison, [22] and the Linda Woodman Unit state jail are co-located among one another. [23] In addition the Mountain View Unit, a prison with the State of Texas female death row, is in Gatesville. [24]
Gatesville is a city in and the county seat of Coryell County, Texas, United States.Its population was 16,135 at the 2020 census. [4] The city has five of the nine prisons and state jails for women operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [5]
Aerial photograph of the prisons in Gatesville, January 13, 1996, United States Geological Survey Topographical map of the Gatesville prison units, 1994, USGS - The area now contains the Murray Unit Dr. Lane Murray Unit is a women's prison of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice located in Gatesville, Texas .
The state asked for bids from private companies, anticipating a major buildout of juvenile prisons. In 1995, Slattery won two contracts to operate facilities in Florida. The two new prisons were originally intended to house boys between 14 and 19 who had been criminally convicted as adults.
This is a list of state prisons in Texas. The list includes only those facilities under the supervision of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and includes some facilities operated under contract by private entities to TDCJ.
Florida leads the nation in placing state prisons in the hands of private, profit-making companies. In recent years, the state has privatized the entirety of its $183 million juvenile commitment system — the nation’s third-largest, trailing only California and Texas.