The Louie C. Powledge Unit (B2, originally the Beto II Unit) is a

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(TDCJ) prison for men located in

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transfer facility, is along Farm to Market Road 3452. The facility is located off of Farm to Market Road 645, west of

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. The unit opened in July 1982 as the Beto II Unit.''Texas Department of Criminal Justice''. Turner Publishing Company, 2004
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. Retrieved on August 8, 2010. Construction of the bus repair facility began in October 1982 and ended in October 1984. The unit acquired additional acreage in October 1986. Construction of a 200-person trusty camp facility began in 1987 and ended in January 1989. In October 1988 the bus repair facility was converted into a manufacturer of dump beds and spreader boxes for the Highway Department dump trucks and of jail steel products for the construction of additional TDCJ units. The Louis C. Powledge Unit received its current name on May 5, 1995, after Louie C. Powledge, a former Assistant Director of Contract Construction. In 2011 the

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metal products plant closed. Its operations were consolidated with those of Powledge and

Coffield Unit The H. H. Coffield Unit (CO) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for men in unincorporated Anderson County, Texas. The prison, near Tennessee Colony, is along Farm to Market Road 2054. The unit, on a plot of land, is co-located ...

Notable residents

Current (as of 2019): * Warren Jeffs –leader of

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, convicted of aggravated sexual assault of multiple children. *Eddie Ray Routh – Convicted of murdering Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield in 2013. Former: * Carlos Coy (

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) - Houston, Texas rapper convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child * Royce Zeigler – convicted of the

murder of Riley Ann Sawyers Riley Ann Sawyers (March 11, 2005 – July 24, 2007) was a two-year-old American girl who was beaten to death by her mother Kimberly Dawn Trenor and her mother's partner Royce Zeigler in a filicide. Her body was later found in Galveston Bay, Tex ...

* Terry Hornbuckle – former pastor in Arlington, TX church, convicted of raping females in congregation. () TDCJ Number 01400102 - SID 07475658

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