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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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The Unit has a large garment manufacturing facility, which makes garments for several other State and local corrections facilities. Also notable, is the Robertson Unit's kennel of tracking dogs, and horses for mounted operations. [citation needed] The unit is named after French M. Robertson, a lawyer and oil businessman from Abilene, Texas. [3]
The prison is located on Farm to Market Road 655, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Farm to Market Road 521, [3] and south of Houston. [4] The 16,369-acre (6,624 ha) unit is co-located with the Stringfellow Unit and the Terrell Unit .
Black Prisoner Support groups such as Partners of Prisoners have sought to establish productive working relationships with prison staff. [2] South Carolina 's Alston Wilkes Society is the largest statewide prison support organization in the United States, with a budget of $918,000 and a staff of 50.
On April 6, 2010, two inmates, Jose Bustos-Diaz and Octavio Ramos Lopez escaped from the prison. Ramos Lopez was later captured four months later, he was found with 150 pounds of cocaine. Bustos-Diaz, who was serving a 35 year sentence for the murder of Deborah Kay in 2005, remains at large and is currently wanted by the U.S. Marshals .