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The Huntsville Unit in Huntsville is a prison operated by the Correctional Institutions Division; it houses the state execution chamber Allan B. Polunsky Unit, the location of the men's death row Clemens Unit. Eastham Unit; Ellis Unit; W.J. Estelle Unit; Ferguson Unit; Thomas Goree Unit; Huntsville Unit – Texas State Penitentiary at ...
On December 13, 2000, the seven carried out an elaborate scheme and escaped from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security state prison near the South Texas city of Kenedy. [20] At the time of the breakout, the reported ringleader of the Texas Seven, 30-year-old George Rivas, was serving 18 consecutive 15-to-life sentences.
Pages in category "Prisoners and detainees of Texas" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Two county jail guards have been indicted on murder charges for the asphyxiation death of an inmate in Texas. The indictments, dated Tuesday, charge Joel Garcia, 48, and Rafael Moreno Jr., 37, in ...
Kadamovas and co-defendant Iouri Mikhel were sentenced to death for kidnapping five people, demanding more than $5.5 million in ransom from relatives and associates, and killing the kidnapped victims. The bodies were tied with weights and dumped in a reservoir near Yosemite National Park. Iouri Gherman Mikhel: 59 23675-112
The 12,789 acres (5,176 ha) prison is located on Farm to Market Road 230, [4] near Lovelady and 13 miles (21 km) west of Trinity. [ 2 ] Robert Perkinson, author of Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire , said that while the TDCJ and other agencies operate many types of prisons and jails in Texas, "if any unit stands for the rest," it ...
The force used in Marine Anthony Johnson Jr.’s death came under scrutiny following the 2020 death of George Floyd. Two county jail guards have been indicted on murder charges for the ...
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe. Guards accused the teen of faking it and forced him to do pushups in his own vomit, according to Texas law enforcement reports ...