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On December 13, 2000, the seven carried out an elaborate scheme and escaped from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security state prison near the South Texas city of Kenedy. [ 20 ] At the time of the breakout, the reported ringleader of the Texas Seven, 30-year-old George Rivas, was serving 18 consecutive 15-to-life sentences.
Torres was sentenced to a year in prison and released after five days due to 10 months already served. [95] 31 July 2013: Jason Blackwelder 10 June 2014: Conroe Police Department (Texas) Blackwelder shot Russell Rios, who had shoplifted two iPod cases, in the back of the head while chasing after him. He was found guilty of second-degree ...
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 ...
Former correction officer at FCI Danbury in Connecticut; sentenced to prison in 2008 for having sex with an inmate; convicted in 2010 of trying to hire a hitman to kill the inmate, his ex-wife, his ex-wife's boyfriend, and a federal agent while incarcerated at USP Coleman in Florida. [33] [34] He was beaten to death by another inmate on August ...
The force used in Marine Anthony Johnson Jr.’s death came under scrutiny following the 2020 death of George Floyd. Two county jail guards have been indicted on murder charges for the ...
The Huntsville Unit in Huntsville is a prison operated by the Correctional Institutions Division; it houses the state execution chamber Allan B. Polunsky Unit, the location of the men's death row Clemens Unit. Eastham Unit; Ellis Unit; W.J. Estelle Unit; Ferguson Unit; Thomas Goree Unit; Huntsville Unit – Texas State Penitentiary at ...
Excerpts of body-worn camera footage from four corrections officers were released Friday by the New York Attorney General’s Office showing the in-custody beating of 43-year-old inmate Robert ...
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.