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LOVELADY, Texas (KTRE) - The Texas Board of Criminal Justice voted Friday morning to rename the Eastham Unit which will become the J. Dale Wainwright Unit. The over 12,000-acre prison campus with ...
Eastham Unit farm shop property manager Jason Omelina was charged with theft and two higher-ranking officials based in Huntsville, Terry Price and Rick Ellis, were charged with tampering with ...
A letter written on Nov. 6, 2018, by inmate Jessie Paul Skinner describes conditions at the Eastham Unit in Lovelady this past summer. On the right, state data shows the outside temperature there ...
Two prison guards and an inmate are recovering from serious injuries today after an attack by two convicted murderers in a failed escape attempt from the Eastham Unit in Lovelady, prison officials ...
According to the arrest affidavit, a peace officer with the Office of the Inspector General got word from an inmate at the Eastham Unit that Tryon had smuggled contraband into the prison.
He is one of some 2,400 prisoners at TDCJ’s Eastham Unit, a working farm, in Lovelady. Bowser’s father takes liver medication that causes him to lose weight. “Now that he is not receiving ...
He was closely tied to the convict leasing program that killed thousands in Texas. The Eastham Unit is named after the landowners who bought Goree's family plantation about 20 miles north of ...
Inmates recently filed a similar complaint at the state’s oldest maximum security prison, the Eastham Unit in Lovelady. Eastham was built on top of land where slaves were forced to work before ...
He was closely tied to the convict leasing program that killed thousands in Texas. The Eastham Unit is named after the landowners who bought Goree’s family plantation about 20 miles north of ...