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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 ...
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.
Two guards were shot by the escapees during the breakout, guard Major Crowson fatally. He died in the hospital on January 27 soon after Texas prison administrator Lee Simmons assured him that he would send his killer Joe Palmer to the electric chair. Simmons then turned his attention to restoring the reputation of the Texas prison system.
In connection with his death, the jail was issued a notice of non-compliance from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards related to observations. The guard reportedly failed to check on Moore for an hour and seven minutes. Jail or Agency: Rolling Plains Detention Center; State: Texas; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 4/26/2016 ...
2023 Cleveland, Texas shooting: Cleveland: April 28, 2023: 5: Gunman shot neighbors, killing 5 people, before fleeing into a wooded area. 2023 Allen, Texas outlet mall shooting: Allen: May 6, 2023: 9: Gunman shot eight people before being shot by police. 2023 Austin shootings: Austin: December 4-5 2023: 6: Gunman killed six people in a spree ...
He was sentenced Nov. 17 in federal court in Toledo. Zacharias' crimes spanned 15 years, from July 2005 to August 2020. He was an associate pastor at Mansfield St. Peter's from July 2002 to July 2007.
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 ...
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]