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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.
A string of fires, riots, escapes, conflicts and legal action throughout 1996 and 1997 caused the Texas Commission on Jail Standards to step in and enforce state standards at the institution in February 1998. That March Oklahoma pulled out its 134 inmates. In May the Bobby Ross Group was fired and replaced by Correctional Services Corporation ...
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 Barry B. Telford Unit (TO) a.k.a. Telford Unit (opened July 1995) is a Texas state prison located in unincorporated Bowie County, Texas. The facility, along Texas State Highway 98, is 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Interstate 30. It has a "New Boston, Texas" mailing address, [1] and is in proximity to Texarkana. [2]
The state of Texas purchased the prison farm property in 1885 or 1886. Previously several private plantations based here used convict leasing for labor. [ 8 ] This system has been called "slavery by another name", as lessees operated with little oversight by the state as to their treatment of convicts. [ 9 ]
By January 2012 the Harris County jails had 8,573, a decrease by 31% from 2008 to 2012, and there were only 21 inmates serving time in other jail facilities, all in Texas. [10] The jail population increased since the Texas Legislature cut its community mental health services funding by $400 million in 2003. Between 2004 and 2009 the population ...
Heath is located in southwestern Rockwall County. A small portion of the city—0.31 square miles (0.79 km 2)—extends south into Kaufman County. [8] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.7 square miles (27.7 km 2), of which 10.56 square miles (27.36 km 2) are land and 0.14 square miles (0.35 km 2), or 1.27%, are water.
McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas, United States. [7] It is Collin County's third-largest city, after Plano and Frisco.A suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, McKinney is about 32 miles (51 km) north of Dallas.