Английская Википедия:George Beto Unit
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, Шаблон:Convert south of Tennessee Colony. The prison, co-located with Coffield Unit, Michael Unit, and Powledge Unit prisons and the Gurney Unit transfer facility, has Шаблон:Convert of land.[2] The unit currently houses over 3,400 offenders.
The unit opened in June 1980. It has the Correctional Institutions Division Region II Maintenance headquarters.[2] The unit was named after George Beto, who served as prison director from 1962 to 1972.[3] In 2008 Perryn Keys of the Beaumont Enterprise said that Beto "has been described as a gladiator’s playground — a hardcore joint, even as prisons go."[4] That year, Ricardo Ainslie, an author and a professor in the educational psychology department of the University of Texas, said that when he toured Beto with the warden, he was "scared (expletive)."[4] Joyce King, author of the 2002 book Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas, said that Beto's reputation as a "gladiator" prison stems from the fact that most of its prisoners are in their mid-20s, relatively young. As of that year, some inmates are at the equivalent of a 4th year high school student (senior), and a few are near their 30s. King also said "The dubious distinction is also a warning—gladiators either fight because they must or because they like to."[5]
History
Шаблон:Expand section In 2014 Curtis Garland, Jr., a prisoner from Dallas who began a 12-year sentence for family violence in 2012, died of an asthma attack. His family believed that prison officials did not disclose the true details related to the death.[6]
Facility
Beto has housing for its warden. The warden housing, in one duplex unit, is a part of three duplexes. One other duplex has housing for the warden of another unit, and one is unoccupied as of 2002.[7]
The prison places its confirmed gang members in the F Wing. The far southern wing, PTRC,Шаблон:Clarify is a pre-release wing.[8]
The prison currently has three unoccupied wings that are kept for emergency overflow. The three wings are old administrative segregation wings from when the unit housed MROPШаблон:Clarify offenders. Currently, the only occupied wings are A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, P, T, U, O (transient wing), X (PHD, Seg, solitary wing).Шаблон:Citation needed
Custody levels
- General Population: G1 - G4
- Administrative Segregation
- Transient
- Outside
- Trusty
Notable inmates
| Inmate Name | Register Number | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raul Omar Villarreal | 05128548 / 01306432 | Serving a life sentence; eligible for parole in 2029. | One of six perpetrators of the 1993 Murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Peña in which the two girls were brutally gang raped and tortured before being killed.[9] Villarreal was originally given a death sentence.[10][11] |
- Lawrence Russell Brewer: murderer of James Byrd, Jr., executed in 2011.[4]
- John William "Bill" King: murderer of James Byrd, Jr., executed in 2019.[4]
References
External links
- Beto Unit Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
- List of prisoners in the Beto Unit - The Texas Tribune
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 "[1]." Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on June 5, 2010.
- ↑ "1995 Annual Report." Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on July 21, 2010.
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 4,3 Keys, Perryn. "JASPER: THE ROAD BACK: Did prison time turn man into one of Byrd's killers?Шаблон:Dead link" Beaumont Enterprise. June 9, 2008. Retrieved on July 23, 2010.
- ↑ King, Joyce. Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas. Random House, Inc., 2002. 98. Retrieved from Google Books on November 3, 2010. Шаблон:ISBN, Шаблон:ISBN.
- ↑ Shipp, Brett. "Family, former inmates seek truth in Texas prison deathШаблон:Dead link" (Archive). WFAA. September 25, 2015. Retrieved on February 25, 2016.
- ↑ King, Joyce. Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas. Random House, Inc., 2002. 92. Retrieved from Google Books on November 3, 2010. Шаблон:ISBN, Шаблон:ISBN.
- ↑ King, Joyce. Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas. Random House, Inc., 2002. 97. Retrieved from Google Books on November 3, 2010. Шаблон:ISBN, Шаблон:ISBN.
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