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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.
On a hill overlooking the sculpture is the Memorial Corridor which displays 805 hanging steel rectangles, each representing the counties in the United States where a documented lynching took place and, for each county, the names of those lynched. For Lamar County, Irving and Herman Arthur are memorialized as lynching victims. [12]
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On the 26th day of January 1893, by request of A. Cate, mayor of Paris, and J. C. Hunt, Justice of the Peace Precinct No. I, Lamar County, Texas, examined the dead body of Myrtle Vance, aged about three years. We found the body in a semi-rigid state and based our opinion on the fact that death had occurred not more than six or eight hours previous.
In 2021, Bryan Collier, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said that tablets would “fundamentally change” communication for the state’s more than 100,000 prison ...
Here’s what the Texas penal code on execution of judgment states: TITLE 1, Art. 43.03 A court may not order a defendant confined under Subsection (a) of this article unless the court at a ...
The Fifth Congress established the new county on December 17, 1840, and named it after Mirabeau B. Lamar, [5] who was the first vice president and the second president of the Republic of Texas. Paris, Texas in 1885. Lamar County was one of the 18 Texas counties that voted against secession on February 23, 1861. [6]
There are over 150 federal law enforcement offices in Texas. including those for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Customs and Border Protection; Drug Enforcement Administration; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Immigration and Customs Enforcement; United States Secret Service; Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division; Naval ...