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The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville houses its first prisoner
On this day in 1849, the first prisoner, a convicted horse thief from Fayette County, entered the partially completed Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. The facility held only three prisoners in 1849, but by 1855 it housed seventy-five convicts, and by 1860, 182. In 1998 there were six prison units in Huntsville, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice was responsible for more than 146,000 adult inmates at units throughout the state.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- TEXAS STATE PENITENTIARY AT HUNTSVILLE
- PRISON SYSTEM
- HUNTSVILLE, TX
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
- Quicksilver mine goes bust (1942)
- General Land Office opens (1837)
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