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The William P. Hobby Unit (HB) is a prison for women in unincorporated Falls County, Texas, United States. Named after William P. Hobby , Lieutenant Governor of Texas , it is a part of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ).
Life in prison without the possibility of parole: Added: April 6, 2016 ... She is serving her sentence at the William P. Hobby Unit, "Hobby," a women's prison in ...
William Pettus Hobby (March 26, 1878 – June 7, 1964) was an American politician, journalist, and publisher. He was the publisher/owner of the Beaumont Enterprise ...
As part of an investigation into James Slattery's private prison empire, The Huffington Post analyzed thousands of pages of court transcripts, police reports, state audits and inspection records obtained through state public records laws. Many of the documents behind the series are annotated below.
She was initially held in a state prison diagnostic unit in Gatesville, Texas in February 1998, [14] then held at the Murray Unit, also in Gatesville. [15] At one point she was held in protective custody at Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, but she was later moved to the general prison population in the William P. Hobby Unit near Marlin.
The private prison industry has long fueled its growth on the proposition that it is a boon to taxpayers, delivering better outcomes at lower costs than state facilities. But significant evidence undermines that argument: the tendency of young people to return to crime once they get out, for example, and long-term contracts that can leave ...
Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.
William Pettus Hobby Jr. (born January 19, 1932) [1] is an American Democratic politician who served a record eighteen years as the 37th lieutenant governor of Texas.He held that office from January 16, 1973, to January 15, 1991, for an unprecedented five terms; he was the last lieutenant governor to serve a two-year term and the first elected to a four-year term when the Texas Constitution ...