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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 Supreme Court of the United States has held that the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act (1970) [3] allows for a trial of any untried indictment, information, or complaint within 180 days. [4] However, the prisoner needs to enter a request for final disposition to begin the clock. [ 5 ]
As of 2001, the unit's warden was Leslie W. Woods. That year it had 2,806 prisoners. Many [vague] of the prisoners were Hispanic and Latino, since the prison is in the South Texas region. As of 2001 the prison had 570 prison guards and 273 other employees. [4] In May 2003 Darrel Wafer, a 40-year-old prisoner, was left in a hot shower.
Two former guards at the Allred Prison Unit near Wichita Falls are among 13 people indicted by a federal grand jury in San Antonio on allegations of smuggling drugs into state prisons.
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This facility is adjacent to two other private prisons: the Willacy County Regional Detention Center, operated by the Management and Training Corporation housing federal prisoners for the U.S. Marshal Service, and the Willacy County State Jail, operated by the Corrections Corporation of America under contract with the state of Texas. [7]
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is investigating two separate inmate deaths at state prisons this month in Lubbock and Amarillo. Inmate deaths at Texas state prisons in Lubbock, Amarillo ...
Jerry H. Hodge Unit is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a state prison for men in Rusk, Texas; it is on Farm to Market Road 2972, west of Texas State Highway 69 North. It opened in March 1995. [1] It is on a 58-acre (23 ha) lot, co-located with the Skyview Unit. [1] It has a capacity of 989 prisoners.