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The Holliday Transfer Facility (TDCJ Identification Code: NF, also referred to as the Holliday Transfer Unit),
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" '' The Baltimore Sun''. 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.
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The Holliday Transfer Facility (TDCJ Identification Code: NF, also referred to as the Holliday Transfer Unit),." Texas Department of Criminal Justice. September/October 2007. Retrieved on September 26, 2010. is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice transfer facility for men located in Huntsville, Texas. Holliday is along Interstate 45 and north of Texas State Highway 30. The unit, on a plot of land, is co-located with the
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The Texas Prison Museum is located in Huntsville, Texas.
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.Perkinson, Robert. ''Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire''. First Edition. Metropolitan Books, 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''. Random House, Inc.
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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 pastor in the Huntsville area. Watkins sent many letters toGovernor of Texas
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Ann Richards, asking her to name a prison after Holliday. The $30 million Holliday Unit, with a capacity of around 2,000 beds,Power, Stephen.At tobacco-free prison, a smoke's expensive
" '' The Baltimore Sun''. 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 razor wire and guard towers. 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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*Holliday Unit
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