Barry Telford Unit
| Location |
3899 State Hwy 98 New Boston, Texas 75570 |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 33°25′17″N 94°28′35″W / 33.4214167°N 094.4764833°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Security class | G1-G5, Administrative segregation, safekeeping |
| Capacity | 2,872 |
| Opened | July 1995 |
| Managed by | TDCJ Correctional Institutions Division |
| Warden | Joseph Wilson |
| County | Bowie County |
| Country | US |
| Website |
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The Barry B. Telford Unit (TO) aka Telford Unit (opened July 1995) is a Texas state prison located in unincorporated Bowie County, Texas. The facility, along Texas State Highway 98, is 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Interstate 30. It has a "New Boston, Texas" mailing address,[1] and is in proximity to Texarkana.[2] The Telford Unit is operated by Texas Department of Criminal Justice Correctional Institutions Division, administered within Region II.[1]
History
On July 11, 1997, William Speer, a White prisoner at Telford (then TDCJ#668485), killed a 47-year old white prisoner in his cell. Speer was sentenced to death and became TDCJ#999398. He is now in the Polunsky Unit.[3]
On April 1, 1999, a White prisoner named Lee Andrew Taylor,[4] nicknamed "Tiny",[5] fatally stabbed a black prisoner, Donta Green,[2] in a dayroom. Taylor was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a prison gang ("security threat group" in TDCJ parlance) and the death was a result of racial tension. Taylor (TDCJ #765153 as a non-death row inmate) was serving a life sentence for aggravated robbery;[4] The prisoner stated that the stabbing was self-defense.[2] However Taylor was sentenced to death,[4] and moved to the Polunsky Unit.[5] He (TDCJ #999344 as a death row inmate) was executed at the Huntsville Unit on June 16, 2011.[6]
References
- 1 2 "Telford TO", Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Accessed 2014-01-08
- 1 2 3 "Texas inmate who killed fellow prisoner set to die" (Archive). Associated Press at the Amarillo Globe-News. June 16, 2011. Retrieved on January 20, 2016.
- ↑ "Speer, William." Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on January 26, 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Taylor, Lee Andrew." Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on January 20, 2016.
- 1 2 Hannaford, Alex. "Inmates Aren’t the Only Victims of the Prison-Industrial Complex" (Archive). The Nation. September 16, 2014. Retrieved on January 20, 2016.
- ↑ "Last Statement Lee Taylor, TDCJ #999344." Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on January 20, 2016.
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