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In the 2003 video game Freelancer, the LPI Huntsville is a prison ship orbiting Houston planet in the Texas system. David Allan Coe refers to the "Huntsville prison walls so high" in his song "Houston, Dallas, San Antone". The 2003 film, The Life of David Gale, was shot in multiple places, including Huntsville, Texas. In the film, Kevin Spacey ...
Clyde Vernon Thompson (1910–July 1, 1979 [1]) was an American prisoner turned chaplain.He is most noted for being cited and labeled as The Meanest Man in Texas. The film titled The Meanest Man in Texas has been filmed and is currently in the post production process and is based on the true story and book of the same title (ISBN 978-0-9714958-6-9), written by Don Umphrey.
It is the largest prison cemetery in the State of Texas. Byrd's first prisoners were interred there in the mid-1800s, and the prison agencies of Texas have maintained the cemetery since then. [3] The warden of the Huntsville Unit (nicknamed the "Walls Unit") maintains the cemetery. [1]
The Huntsville Unit, the location of the siege. The 1974 Huntsville Prison siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974, at the Huntsville Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections in Huntsville, Texas. The standoff was one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in United States history. [1]
The James "Jay" H. Byrd Jr. Unit (DU) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for men located in Huntsville, Texas. The 93 acres (38 ha) diagnostic unit, established in May 1964, is 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Downtown Huntsville on Farm to Market Road 247. [1] The prison was named after James H. Byrd, a former prison warden. [citation ...
A video filmed on CCTV has gone viral online, leading many to believe that a 'ghost' haunts this maximum-security prison. Footage of 'prisoner's soul' floating through prison walls leaves people ...
Marshall Lee Simmons, the general manager of the prison system, started the rodeo in 1931. [1] The rodeo originated in the Eastham Unit. [3] Johnny Cash played his first-ever concert at the Texas Prison Rodeo in 1956. [4] Women participated in the rodeo until 1981, when they were moved from the Goree Unit in Huntsville to the prisons in Gatesville.
Marshall was arrested for felony cocaine possession and providing a false identity to law enforcement, according to the Houston Chronicle. Marshall was observed having a seizure in her cell prior to her death, according to the Huntsville Item. Jail or Agency: Walker County Jail; State: Texas; Date arrested or booked: 4/26/2016; Date of death: 5 ...