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Bradshaw State Jail
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Bradshaw State Jail is a state prison located in Rusk County, Texas. Rated capacity: 1,980. Reported population: 1,964. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Bradshaw State Jail is a medium-security prison for men located in Henderson, Rusk County, Texas, owned and operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. and it has an official capacity of 1828 inmates. This facility was first opened by Management and Training Corporation in July 1995. As of August 31, 2020, the state placed this facility in idle status, due to the decreasing number of inmates during the COVID-19 pandemic. This facility has since reopened as of October 2023.
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Capacity
1,980
Current population
1,964
Occupancy
99%
Year opened
1995
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Texas Department of CorrectionsPopulation held
male
Opened
1995
Region
Texas
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice â unit directory — State of Texas
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q28446267)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Bradshaw State Jail. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/bradshaw-state-jail
"Bradshaw State Jail." World Prisons. Accessed October 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/bradshaw-state-jail.
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