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The Texas prison system’s 100 units have been placed on a statewide lockdown due to a series of drug-related inmate homicides, officials announced on Wednesday. During the lockdown, inmates will ...
In 2008, Tabler prompted a massive lockdown at the 150,000-inmate prison when he smuggled a cellphone into the facility and began making death-threat phone calls to then-state Sen. John Whitmire ...
The state has canceled all visits to Texas prison inmates until a comprehensive search of all 100 correctional facilities for contraband has been completed.
Aerial view of the Coffield Prison Farm Property (The Michael, Beto, Coffield, Gurney, and Powledge units) 1977 United States Geological Survey map of the land which now houses the Michael Unit The Mark W. Michael Unit ( MI ) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice men's prison located in unincorporated Anderson County , Texas . [ 1 ]
The Bradshaw State Jail is a privately owned medium-security prison for men located in Henderson, Rusk County, Texas, owned and operated by Management and Training Corporation under contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [1] and it has an official capacity of 1980 inmates.
The killing of inmate Billy Chemirmir in the Coffield Unit occurred during a statewide lockdown of prisons, promoted by a rise in inmate homicides. A day before the lockdown, another incident at ...
The J. Dale Wainwright Unit is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison for men, located in unincorporated Houston County, Texas. [1] [2] Formerly called the Eastham Unit or "The Ham," the prison was renamed the J. Dale Wainwright Unit after a former chairman of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. [3]
The federal prison system has been placed on a nationwide lockdown after two inmates were killed and two others injured during a gang altercation at a Texas penitentiary.