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  2. List of Texas state prisons - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Brazoria County, Texas - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) operates six state prisons for men and its Region III office in unincorporated Brazoria County. [19] As of 2007,1,495 full-time correctional job positions were in the county. [20] In 1995, of the counties in Texas, Brazoria had the second-highest number of state prisons and jails, after Walker ...

  4. Memorial Unit - Wikipedia

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    Aerial photograph, U.S. Geological Survey – January 25, 1995 Topographic map, U.S. Geological Survey – July 1, 1984 The Memorial Unit (DA), known as the Darrington Unit until 2023, is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) men's prison located in Brazoria County, Texas, [1] with a Rosharon, Texas postal address; [2] it is not inside the Rosharon census-designated place. [3]

  5. Texas prison lockdown over drug murders renews worries about ...

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    The Texas prison system’s 100 units have been placed on a statewide lockdown due to a series of drug-related inmate homicides, officials announced on Wednesday. During the lockdown, inmates will ...

  6. Clemens Unit - Wikipedia

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    The prison, with about 8,008 acres (3,241 ha), is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 2004 and Texas State Highway 36. [2] The prison, in the Texas Gulf Coast region, [3] is in proximity to the City of Brazoria, [4] and it is in proximity to the Velasco community, now a part of Freeport. [5] The prison is situated south of ...

  7. 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.

  8. Manvel, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Manvel is located in northern Brazoria County at (29.479200, –95.356299 Iowa Colony is to the west, Pearland is to the north, and Alvin is to the east.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 23.6 square miles (61.0 km 2), of which 23.5 square miles (60.9 km 2) is land and 0.039 square miles (0.1 km 2), or 0.12%, is water.

  9. Without air conditioning, temperatures inside Texas prisons ...

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    TDCJ previously said that it would cost more than $20 million to install air-conditioning at one Texas prison, but it ended up costing about $4 million. “Over the past several years, the agency ...