Dr. Lane Murray Unit is a

women's prison This article discusses the incarceration of women in correctional facilities. As of 2013 across the world, 625,000 women and children were being held in penal institutions, and the female prison population was increasing in all continents.

of the

Texas Department of Criminal Justice The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a department of the government of the U.S. state of Texas. The TDCJ is responsible for statewide criminal justice for adult offenders, including managing offenders in state prisons, state jails ...

located in

Gatesville, Texas Gatesville is a city in and the county seat of Coryell County, Texas, United States. Its population was 16,135 at the 2020 census. The city has five of the nine prisons and state jails for women operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. ...

. The prison is located on

Texas State Highway 36 State Highway 36 (SH 36) runs from Freeport to Abilene. It was designated as the 36th Division Memorial Highway between Cameron and Sealy by the Texas Legislature in 1985. History SH 36 was originally proposed on November 21, 1917, as a route ...

, between Farm to Market Road 215 and Farm to Market Road 929. The unit, which opened in November 1995, is located with the Christina Crain Unit, the Hilltop Unit, the

Mountain View Unit Mountain View Unit is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison housing female offenders in Gatesville, Texas. The unit, with about of land, is located north of central Gatesville on Farm to Market Road 215. The prison is located in a 45 ...

, and the Woodman Unit.Murray Unit
."

. Retrieved on May 10, 2010. The unit is named after Lane Murray, who was the first superintendent of the Windham School District.

History

The State of Texas, in 1997, passed a law criminalizing any sexual relations between a prisoner and prison guard after, in the 1990s, prosecutors were unable to have a prison guard at Murray convicted for coercing inmates into sexual interactions. The prison guard stated that the sexual interactions were consensual. In 2010 the Murray Unit began to host a faith-based dormitory rehabilitation program.

Notable prisoners

Current

* Chante Jawan Mallard * Edith Beebe * Genene Jones

Former

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* Kimberly Saenz- (Intake) Moved to

. * Karla Faye Tucker - American woman executed February 3, 1998, for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863.

References

External links

Murray Unit

Prisons in Gatesville, Texas Women's prisons in Texas Buildings and structures in Coryell County, Texas 1995 establishments in Texas {{Texas-struct-stub