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701 Jail. The 701 Jail (located at 701 North San Jacinto Street) is one of the largest detention facilities in the United States. [15] The seven floor 701 Jail has 4,144 inmate beds. The 701 Jail, originally a five-story building to be used as a cold storage warehouse, [16] opened in the late 1920s.
List of counties in Texas. The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state. [1] While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 30,503,301 inhabitants.
Region I. 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.
Harris County, Texas. / 29.86°N 95.39°W / 29.86; -95.39. Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas; as of the 2020 census, the population was 4,731,145, [1] making it the most populous county in Texas and the third-most populous county in the United States. Its county seat is Houston, the most populous city in Texas ...
July 10, 2024 at 11:25 PM. HOUSTON (AP) — The damage left by Hurricane Beryl in Texas and requests for federal help has opened a rift between the White House and the state's GOP leaders ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will close a costly Texas detention center and reallocate the funds to increase overall detention capacity as the agency ramps ...
HOUSTON — Days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall in southeast Texas, millions of people were still without power on Thursday amid stifling temperatures as they try to recover from the storm ...
Memorial Hermann–Texas Medical Center is a nationally ranked hospital at the Texas Medical Center. It is the first hospital founded in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas (and its founding predates the Texas Medical Center). Founded in 1925, it is the primary teaching hospital for McGovern Medical School (formerly The University of ...