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The John B. Connally Unit is a maximum-security prison for males located in unincorporated Karnes County, Texas, United States. [1] It is located on Farm to Market Road 632, just east of U.S. Highway 181 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the city of Kenedy, [2] and southeast of San Antonio. [3]
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.
Kenedy is a city in Karnes County, Texas, United States, named for Mifflin Kenedy, [4] who bought 400,000 acres (1,600 km 2) and wanted to develop a new town that would carry his name. The population was 3,473 at the 2020 census, [ 5 ] up from 3,296 at the 2010 census.
The company also hired James C. Poland, who had worked in the Texas prison system, where Esmor was angling for new contracts. All of these recruits positioned the company for winnings. In 1994, Slattery and his partners cashed in with an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange valued at $5.2 million.
The federal prison system has been placed on a nationwide lockdown after two inmates were killed and two others injured during a gang altercation at a Texas penitentiary.
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.
It does not include federal prisons or county jails, nor does it include the North Texas State Hospital; though the facility houses those classified as "criminally insane" (such as Andrea Yates) the facility is under the supervision of the Texas Department of State Health Services. Facilities listed are for males unless otherwise stated.
Friday is the 61st anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He was the last president killed, but the risk remains. Shots rang out in Dallas 61 years ago, killing John Kennedy.