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The prison also housed several hundred excess pretrial prisoners from the Bexar County, Texas jail. Franky Salinas, one of the Bexar prisoners, hanged himself in 2009. [9] In October 2010 another 100 inmates were temporarily transferred from Bexar County jail to Crystal City Correctional Center. [10]
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.
Dempsie Henley State Jail (Female) Pam Lychner State Jail (originally Atascocita Unit) Lucille G. Plane State Jail (Female) Region IV Fabian Dale Dominguez State Jail; Renaldo V. Lopez State Jail; Joe Ney State Jail (originally the Hondo Unit) Rogelio Sanchez State Jail; Region V Marshall Formby State Jail; J.B. Wheeler State Jail; Region VI ...
Inmates could play baseball, visit zoos with horses, pigs and flamingos, and saunter round market streets Inside prison run by gang with swimming pool, mini-zoo and even its own nightclub Skip to ...
The L. V. Hightower Unit (HI) or Hightower Unit is a prison in Texas, United States, within the Texas Department of Corrections system. It is located in unincorporated Liberty County, [2] near Dayton, Texas. It is named for Lockhart V. Hightower, former sheriff and county clerk of Liberty County.
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 ...
Here’s what the Texas penal code on execution of judgment states: TITLE 1, Art. 43.03 A court may not order a defendant confined under Subsection (a) of this article unless the court at a ...
A Texas defense attorney has been arrested and accused of being a “major supplier” of dangerous narcotics in jail by sneaking inmates papers laced with drugs, the Harris County Sheriff's ...