Stringfellow Unit

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A.M. "Mac" Stringfellow Unit
Location	1200 FM 655 Rosharon, Texas 77583
Coordinates	29°17′56″N 95°32′21″W / 29.2988889°N 095.5391667°W / 29.2988889; -095.5391667
Status	Operational
Security class	G1-G4, Outside Trusty
Capacity	Unit: 893 Trusty Camp: 319
Opened	July 1908
Former name	Ramsey II Unit
Managed by	TDCJ Correctional Institutions Division
Warden	Frankie Reescano
County	Brazoria County
Country	USA
Telephone	+1 281 595 3413
Website	www.tdcj.state.tx.us/unit_directory../r2.html

Aerial photograph of the Ramsey Units, January 23, 1995, United States Geological Survey

Topographical map of the Ramsey Units, July 1, 1984, United States Geological Survey

The A. M. "Mac" Stringfellow Unit (previously Ramsey II Unit) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison located in Rosharon, Brazoria County, Texas. The prison is located on Farm to Market Road 655, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Farm to Market Road 521,^[1] and about 30 miles (48 km) south of Houston.^[2] The unit is co-located with the Ramsey Unit and the Terrell Unit on a 16,369-acre (6,624 ha) plot of land.^[1]

History

The unit opened in July 1908.^[1] The Ramsey Prison Farm consisted of five former plantations.^[3] In 1963, before racial desegregation occurred, the Ramsey II Unit housed African-American prisoners over the age of 25.^[4]

Operations

The Stringfellow Unit is within the attendance zone of the Alvin Community College. Stringfellow was included through H.B. No. 2744,^[5] filed on March 6, 2007.^[6]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Stringfellow Unit." Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on July 20, 2010.
↑ "Inmate recaptured after slipping from work squad." Associated Press at KTRK-TV. Wednesday September 5, 2007. Retrieved on November 19, 2010.
↑ "Convict Leasing and State Account Farming (1883-1909)." Texas State Library and Archives. Retrieved on April 29, 2011.
↑ Trulson, Chad R., James W. Marquart, and Ben M. Crouch. First Available Cell: Desegregation of the Texas Prison System. University of Texas Press, 2009. 82. Retrieved from Google Books on July 20, 2010. ISBN 0-292-71983-3, ISBN 978-0-292-71983-5.
↑ "H.B. No. 2744." Texas Legislature. Retrieved on March 11, 2011. "(3) the territory located in Brazoria County, situated to the west of the Alvin Community College District boundary as it existed on January 1, 2003, extending west to the eastern border of Fort Bend County, and south to County Roads 49, 34, and 255, including the City of Rosharon and the Darrington and Ramsey Units of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice."
↑ "Bill: HB 2744." Texas Legislature. Retrieved on March 11, 2011.

External links

v t e Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division prison units

Region I	Byrd Eastham Ellis Estelle Ferguson Goree Huntsville Lewis Polunsky Wynne

Region II	Beto Boyd Coffield Michael Powledge Telford

Region III	Clemens Darrington Hightower Jester III Ramsey Scott Stiles Stringfellow Terrell Vance

Region IV	Briscoe Connally Lynaugh McConnell Stevenson Torres

Region V	Allred Clements Dalhart Daniel Jordan Neal Roach Rudd Smith Wallace

Region VI	Crain♀ Hilltop♀ Hobby♀ Hughes Luther Mountain View♀ Murray♀ Pack Robertson

Private	Bridgeport Cleveland Diboll Estes Kyle Lockhart♀ B. Moore

Former units	Central

Above facilities are male-only unless noted by ♀(female-only)

Coordinates: 29°17′56″N 95°32′21″W / 29.29889°N 95.53917°W / 29.29889; -95.53917

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