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Fred Carrasco was a powerful heroin kingpin in South Texas who was serving a life sentence for the attempted murder of a police officer. [2] He was also suspected in the murder of dozens of people in Mexico and Texas. Having smuggled pistols and ammunition into the prison, he and two other convicts took eleven prison workers and four inmates ...
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.
Crain Unit's regular program houses around 1,500 women, and it is one of Texas's main prisons for women. [2] Female prison offenders of the TDCJ are released from this unit. [ 3 ] With a capacity of 2,013 inmates, Crain is the TDCJ's largest female prison.
Killed 10 girls and women between 1991 and 1992. Ruslan Alikhadzhiyev: 2000 Russia: Torture or heart attack Parliamentary speaker of Chechenia: Disappeared in 2000, his death was reported as a prison death by Chechenpress and AFP; the FSB denied that Byron De La Beckwith: 2001-01-21 United States: Heart attack [13] American white supremacist
It was previously the only unit for women in West Texas. In 1997 the TDCJ proposed changing it into a men's unit. [1] T.L. Roach, Jr. Unit (Includes a Boot Camp) Preston E. Smith Unit; Daniel Webster Wallace Unit; Region VI Crain Unit (Female) (Formerly the Gatesville Unit) Hilltop Unit (Female) William P. Hobby Unit (Female) Alfred D. Hughes ...
Image credits: The Hollywood Reporter #12 R. Kelly. Former singer and record producer R. Kelly was sentenced to 20 years in prison in early 2023 for three charges of producing child sexual abuse ...
This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States.The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
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 ...