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  2. Behind the Walls: A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas ...

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    The book begins with "A Short History of Texas Prisons," documenting the history of the TDCJ and its predecessor agencies, then has the guide on prison life and operations. According to Lisa E. Brooks of The Urban Institute, the author describes the TDCJ in "laudably evenhanded" ways, and criticizes both inmates and TDCJ employees.

  3. Texas Tough - Wikipedia

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    Texas Tough. Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire is a 2010 book by Robert Perkinson, published by Metropolitan Books . Perkinson, an American Studies professor at University of Hawaii at Manoa, [1] describes the criminal justice system in Texas and how it formed in the context of the post- United States Civil War environment. [2]

  4. George Beto Unit - Wikipedia

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    The George Beto Unit ( B) is a men's maximum security prison of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice located in unincorporated Anderson County, Texas, US. [1] The unit is located along Farm to Market Road 3328, 6 miles (10 kilometers) south of Tennessee Colony. The prison, co-located with Coffield Unit, Michael Unit, and Powledge Unit ...

  5. Thomas Goree Unit - Wikipedia

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    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. The Goree Unit is located within Region I. [ 1] First opened in 1911, it served as the only women's correctional facility in Texas until 1982, after the ...

  6. Books to Prisoners - Wikipedia

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    Books to Prisoners is an umbrella term for organizations that mail free reading material to prison inmates. Background. The first Books to Prisoners projects were founded in the early 1970s. These included Seattle's Books to Prisoners, Boston's Prison Book Program, and the Prison Library Project which was founded in Durham, North Carolina but ...

  7. Prison Book Program - Wikipedia

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    Prison Book Program is an American non-profit organization that sends free books to people in prison. [1] While the organization is based in Massachusetts, it mails packages of books to people in prisons in 45 U.S. states, as well as Puerto Rico and Guam. [2] The program receives letters from people in prison asking for specific titles or ...

  8. List of Texas state prisons - Wikipedia

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    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 Huntsville. Gib Lewis Unit.

  9. Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville ( FCI Seagoville) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Seagoville, Texas in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility includes a detention center for ...