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  2. 1974 Huntsville Prison siege - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Texas Seven - Wikipedia

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    The surviving members were all convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Irving, Texas, police officer Aubrey Wright Hawkins, who was shot and killed when responding to a robbery perpetrated by the Texas Seven. Four of the six sentenced have since been executed, and another has been granted a new trial based on alleged judicial bias.

  4. List of prison deaths - Wikipedia

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    Died in a solitary confinement cell at Changi Prison's death row section. Found guilty in 1985 of murdering a landlady and her two children, and sentenced to hang. His accomplice Lim Beng Hai, also on death row, was put to death five months later on 5 October 1990 Graham Young: 1990-08-01 United Kingdom: Heart attack Poisoner Died in Parkhurst ...

  5. Ellis Unit - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. 5 deaths in one week: Why Texas prisons are seeing a rise in ...

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    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.

  7. Huntsville Unit - Wikipedia

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    Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or Huntsville Unit (HV), nicknamed "Walls Unit", is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States.The approximately 54.36-acre (22.00 ha) facility, near downtown Huntsville, is operated by the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [1]

  8. Two Texas jail guards are indicted by a county grand jury in ...

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    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 ...

  9. List of the worst airplane crashes in Texas history by ... - AOL

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    It was the second-deadliest plane crash in Texas history but today is largely forgotten. ... Of the 108 on board, two crew members and 12 passengers were killed, and 76 were injured. All but one ...