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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.
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.
United Kingdom (detained by the United Arab Emirates) Unknown Tourist, his cause of death is still disputed Edarem: 2012-01-08 United States: Lung cancer: American Internet personality: Colin Ireland: 2012-02-21 United Kingdom: Died as a result of hip injury. [25] British serial killer of gay men: Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó: 2012-12-06 ...
Police responded to reports of a crash where an on-duty officer, Steward, had struck pedestrian Terry Hinton. Steward was found to be under the influence and driving on the wrong side of the road. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. [8] 10 June 2022: Kyle Alan Gould 16 November 2023 (pleaded guilty) Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office ...
It was named after Oscar B. Ellis, a former prison director of Texas. [5] George Beto designed the unit, making it to be the strictest prison in the system, and Jim Estelle, the following prison director, continued the course of action Beto established. [6] From 1965 to 1999 the unit housed the male death row, which had moved from Huntsville ...
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 ...
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 ...
In Texas, there were 50 prison suicides in 2020, the highest number in at least 20 years, even though the prison population fell by 20,000. By late July, 2021 was on track to exceed that.