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The Robertson Unit has space for 1,244 inmates in General Population, plus a large Restricted Housing facility. The Unit has a large garment manufacturing facility, which makes garments for several other State and local corrections facilities. Also notable, is the Robertson Unit's kennel of tracking dogs, and horses for mounted operations.
This is a list of state prisons in Texas. The list includes only those facilities under the supervision of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and includes some facilities operated under contract by private entities to TDCJ.
The Huntsville Unit is the location of the state of Texas execution chamber. [72] The Polunsky death row has about 290 prisoners. [45] As of March 2013, eight male death-row prisoners are housed in Jester IV Unit, a psychiatric unit, instead of Polunsky. [45] [73] The state of Texas began housing death-row inmates in the Huntsville Unit in 1928.
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Robertson had worked for the Sheriff’s Office since Oct. 21, 2019, and was promoted to a sergeant in the detention center’s security division Sept. 5, 2022, personnel records state.
The Protective Housing Unit has been described as "strikingly calm" because inmates "don't want to be moved somewhere less guarded". [6] One violent incident occurred in March 1999 when three inmates attacked inmate Juan Corona, inflicting minor injuries, and smashed Charles Manson's guitar. Three other Protective Housing Unit inmates suffered ...
A second worker has been charged with having sex last year with the same inmate at the Durham County jail. The worker, 41-year-old Lerin Burnette, was employed by a contract vendor at the Durham ...
[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 12,789 acres (5,176 ha) prison is located on Farm to Market Road 230 , [ 4 ] near Lovelady and 13 miles (21 km) west of Trinity .