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Estelle Unit
W. J. "Jim" Estelle Unit ." . Retrieved on September 29, 2011. (E2, originally the Ellis II Unit) also known as the Estelle Supermax Penitentiary, is a prison located on Farm to Market Road 3478 in Walker County, |
Huntsville, Texas
Huntsville is a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Texas. The population was 45,941 as of the 2020 census. It is the center of the Huntsville micropolitan area. Huntsville is in the East Texas Piney Woods on Interstate 45 and home to Texas State Prison, Sam Houston State University, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Huntsville State Park, anHEARTS Veterans Museum of Texas The city served as the residence of Sam Houston, who is recognized in Huntsville by thSam Houston Memorial Museumand a statue on Interstate 45. History The city had its beginning around 1836, when Pleasant and Ephraim Gray opened a trading post on the site. Ephraim Gray became first postmaster in 1837, naming it after his hometown, Huntsville, Alabama. Huntsville became the home of Sam Houston, who served as President of the Republic of Texas, Governor of the State of Texas, Governor of Tennessee, U.S. Senator, and Tennessee congressman. Houston led the Texas Army in the Battle o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Antonio Express-News
The ''San Antonio Express-News'' is a daily newspaper in San Antonio, Texas. It is owned by the Hearst Corporation and has offices in San Antonio and Austin, Texas. The ''Express-News'' is the third largest newspaper in the state of Texas, with a daily circulation of nearly 100,000 copies in 2016. The newspaper's online presence includes both the subscription version of the ''San Antonio Express-News'' and the ad-supported ''mySA''. History The paper was first published in 1865 as a weekly tabloid-style newspaper under the name ''The San Antonio Express''. At that time, the city had already had a number of other newspapers in a number of different languages. However, all the other publications went out of business, leaving only the ''Express'' to serve the city. In December 1866, the ''Express'' made the move from a weekly paper to a daily newspaper, and expanded into a full newspaper by the early 1870s. The early days of the ''Express'' was marked by several leadership chang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Texas Observer
''The Texas Observer'' (also known as the ''Observer'') is an American magazine with a liberal political outlook. The ''Observer'' is published bimonthly by a 501(c)(3)The Texas Democracy Foundation . ''Exempt Organization Search''. Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved August 28, 2016. , the Texas Democracy Foundation. It is headquartered in .
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National Commission On Correctional Health Care
The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the standard of care in the field of correctional health care in the United States. With support from the major national organizations representing the fields of health, law and corrections, the National Commission on Correctional Health Care is committed to improving the quality of health care in jails, prisons, and juvenile confinement facilities. NCCHC's origins date to the early 1970s, when an American Medical Association The American Medical Association (AMA) is a professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students. Founded in 1847, it is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Membership was approximately 240,000 in 2016. The AMA's state ... study of jails found inadequate, disorganized health services and a lack of national standards. In collaboration with other organizations, the AMA established a program that in the earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Network Of Prison Ministries
The International Network of Prison Ministries (INPM) is a Dallas, Texas based crime prevention and rehabilitation trans-national organization. History As of 2016 INPM listed over 4,600 prison ministries worldwide. Programs INPM functions through a website that serves as a clearinghouse for information about various Christian Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ... prison ministries. This group provides information on Christian groups who are guided by the INPM's statement of faith: "Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away...(2 Cor. 5:17)". Prison ministry groups are allowed to become members of the INPM and are provided web pages within the INPM website to present information about themselves. Searchable information on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaser Said
Yaser Abdel Said ( ar, ياسر عبد السعيد; born January 27, 1957) is an Egyptian-American former taxi driver and convicted murderer. For 12 years, Said evaded arrest for the January 1, 2008, fatal shootings of his two daughters, Amina (18) and Sarah (17). Their bodies were found in his abandoned taxi cab in Irving, Texas, on the property of the Omni Mandalay Hotel (now the Omni Las Colinas Hotel). Said disappeared after the killings. He also remained a fugitive from law enforcement for 12 years, with six of those years being on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List for the fatal shootings. Said, who was very controlling over his family, felt that his daughters Amina and Sarah dishonored the family. On January 1, 2008, he lured them into his taxi cab on the pretense of taking them out to eat, where instead, he fatally shot them. Said was captured on August 26, 2020 in the town of Justin, Texas. His son, Islam, and Said's brother, Yassein, were both arrested in Eule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Jay Russell
Steven Jay Russell (born December 31, 1957) is an American con artist, known for escaping from prison multiple times. ''I Love You Phillip Morris'', a film about his life and crimes, was produced in 2009. In 2011, his crimes were featured on the television series '' I Almost Got Away with It'', in the episode "Got A Boyfriend to Support". He was also the subject of "On The Run", a 2005 episode of The Discovery Channel series ''King of Cons''. Biography Russell was adopted in 1957 after his birth parents divorced. He was adopted by Georgia and David Russell, whose family owned a produce business. At the age of 18 he began working for the family business, and also volunteered as a reserve sheriff's deputy and played organ for his church. In 1976 he married Debbie Davis, daughter of the police chief's secretary, and their daughter, Stephanie, was born two years later. Russell and his wife divorced after he revealed to her that he was homosexual. On 20th of March, 1998, Russell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesar Fierro
Cesar Roberto Fierro (born October 18, 1956) is a Mexican national who spent nearly 40 years on death row in Huntsville, Texas, United States, for the 1979 death of a cab driver in El Paso. His death sentence was vacated in December 2019 due to inadequate jury instructions during his trial, and he was released on parole in May 2020. Early life Fierro grew up poor and served as the primary caretaker for his younger brother, Raul, who had a developmental disability. Death of Nicholas Castanon In February 1979, Texas law enforcement found the body of taxi driver Nicholas Castanon. Mexican police found his cab in Ciudad Juárez. The El Paso Police Department arrested two men suspected of the crime who were later released. In late July, Geraldo Olague told Mexican police in Juárez that he and Fierro had planned to rob Castanon. He also told police that during the robbery, Fierro had shot and killed the taxi driver. The circumstances under which Olague came into contact with the police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faryion Wardrip
Faryion Edward Wardrip (born March 6, 1959) is an American Rape, rapist and serial killer who assaulted and murdered a total of five women. Four of the women were killed in Wichita Falls, Texas, Wichita Falls, Texas, and the surrounding counties. One woman was murdered in Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth, approximately a two-hour drive southeast of Wichita Falls. Wardrip's killing spree began at the end of 1984 and lasted until the middle of 1986. All of his female victims were white, were between the ages of 20 and 25, weighed less than , and were under tall. With the murders occurring across multiple jurisdictions, officials from three law enforcement agencies - the Wichita Falls Police Department, the Wichita County Sheriff's Department and the Archer County Sheriff's Department - initially led isolated murder investigations. These investigations were for three of the murders that occurred within a radius of each other. This separation led to multiple news agencies reportin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernie Tiede
Bernhardt Tiede II (; born August 2, 1958) is an American mortician who was convicted of the November 19, 1996 murder of his companion, wealthy 81-year-old widow Marjorie "Marge" Nugent, in Carthage, Texas. He was 38 at the time of the murder. These events are the subject of the critically acclaimed film '' Bernie'' (2011), a dark comedy directed by Richard Linklater and starring Jack Black as Tiede. The film attracted attention to Tiede's case, and new evidence was discovered. He was temporarily released on bail in 2014, pending a resentencing hearing. Despite the new evidence, Tiede was sentenced to 99 years or life. Family and early life Bernie Tiede is the son of Bernhardt Tiede (1912–1973), a native of Olegnow, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. Of German descent, Tiede had immigrated in 1926 as a child with his family to the United States. The elder Tiede had served as a professor of music and choral director at Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio, Texas (1946–1948), at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellis Unit
O. B. Ellis Unit (E1, previously Ellis I Unit) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison located in unincorporated Walker County, Texas, north of Huntsville. The unit, with about of space, now houses up to 2,400 male prisoners."Ellis Unit" . . Retrieved January 8, 2014. Ellis is situated in a wooded area shared with the , which is located away from Ellis.Ward, Mike [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens Review
The ''Athens Daily Review'' is a three-time weekly newspaper in Athens, Texas, published mornings on Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday, and distributed throughout Henderson County. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., which acquired the paper from Donrey Media Group in 1998 as part of a 28-paper transaction. It does not publish a Sunday, Monday, Wednesday or Friday edition. J.B. Bishop and George M. Johnson founded the weekly ''Athens Review'' in 1885. After multiple ownership changes, Robert Enoch YantisAthens Daily Review converted the paper to a daily in 1901. References External links ''Daily Review'' Website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
