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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a department of the government of the U.S. state of Texas.The TDCJ is responsible for statewide criminal justice for adult offenders, including managing offenders in state prisons, state jails, and private correctional facilities, funding and certain oversight of community supervision, and supervision of offenders released from prison on ...
www.tdcj.state.tx.us /unit _directory.. /du.html The James "Jay" H. Byrd Jr. Unit ( DU ) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for men located in Huntsville , Texas . The 93 acres (38 ha) diagnostic unit, established in May 1964, is 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Downtown Huntsville on Farm to Market Road 247 . [ 1 ]
www.tdcj.state.tx.us /unit _directory.. /e2.html W. J. "Jim" Estelle Unit [ 1 ] ( E2 , originally the Ellis II Unit ) also known as the Estelle Supermax Penitentiary, is a prison located on Farm to Market Road 3478 in unincorporated Walker County , Texas , United States , [ 2 ] 10 miles (16 km) north of central Huntsville .
Aerial photograph of the Goree Unit, January 23, 1995, U.S. Geological Survey Topographical map of the Goree Unit, July 1, 1976, U.S. Geological Survey The Thomas Goree Unit (GR) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice men's prison, located in Huntsville, Texas, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of downtown Huntsville on Texas State Highway 75 South.
www.tdcj.texas.gov /unit _directory /rb.html The French M. Robertson Unit is a maximum-security state prison located on Farm to Market Road 3522 in Abilene , Texas , United States , 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Downtown Abilene in Jones County .
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]
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]
In 1987 the Texas State Board of Corrections voted to build two new 2,250 inmate maximum security prisons in Amarillo and Gatesville and several medium security prisons. . Charles Brown, who was the chairperson of the Texas Department of Corrections, said that the construction of each maximum security prison would cost $60 mill