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. Holliday, one of the largest transfer facilities in Texas, is across the street from the Texas Prison Museum.Perkinson, Robert. ''Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire''. First Edition.

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, 2010. 32. . Holliday is one of two prisons in the TDCJ that, as of 2003, is named after an African-American.King, Joyce. ''Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas''.

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History

Richard Watkins, a senior African-American prison warden, lead an effort to have a prison named for C. A. Holliday, an African-American community activist and

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in the Huntsville area. Watkins sent many letters to

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, asking her to name a prison after Holliday. The $30 million Holliday Unit, with a capacity of around 2,000 beds,Power, Stephen.
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''. December 18, 1994. 2A. Retrieved on July 23, 2010. "But after 10 months the $30 million 2000bed Holliday Unit has one problem guards and inmates say Tobacco is still getting in." opened in January 1994. Cigarette smoking at Holliday was forbidden since the facility's opening, while a TDCJ-wide smoking ban, stemming from a November 18, 1994 Texas Board of Criminal Justice unanimous decision to forbid smoking at all TDCJ facilities, began on March 1, 1995.

Facility

Holliday, an industrial-scale complex, has sheet metal siding and low sloping roofs. Robert Perkinson, author of '' Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire'', said that the "hastily-constructed" transfer unit "looks like an assemblage of discount tire outlets," and that the only features that indicate that it is a prison is the

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s. Jim Willett, a Huntsville resident and a former warden, said that Holliday is "a giant tin barn that serves as Texas's prison purgatory, the place you go between jail and the real thing."

References

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