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code: RV), later the Wayne Scott Unit,Isensee, Bridie.
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''. Wednesday August 13, 2003. Retrieved on May 9, 2010. was a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison farm located in unincorporated Brazoria County, Texas.Scott Unit
" Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on May 9, 2010. "6999 Retrieve, Angleton, Texas 77515" The unit, southwest of Houston, is along County Road 290, south of Angleton. Scott, which was established in September 1919, has about of land.

History

The prison was formerly known as the Retrieve Unit. The prison opened on the grounds of the former Retrieve Plantation, which opened in 1839. The final main building opened in the 1930s. In 1935 Retrieve housed White prisoners. In 1963, before racial desegregation occurred, the facility housed second offenders, habitual criminals, and African Americans over the age of 25. A post office in the nearby community of Snipe served the prison farm from 1921 to 1949.Snipe, Texas
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''. Retrieved on July 16, 2010. In September 2018, some 45 boxes of unclaimed bananas were donated to the Scott Unit. and the boxes were found to contain 540 packages of cocaine, which at the time held a street value of US$17,820,000. In 2020 307 people worked at Wayne Scott. The main prison unit was scheduled to end operations by late 2020. According to Bryan Collier, the executive director of the prison agency, the cost to revamp the main building would exceed $30,000,000. The trusty camp at that time remained open. the TDCJ no longer lists the former Retrieve Unit. In 2021 the Jester IV Unit in Fort Bend County was renamed the Wayne Scott Unit.

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