United States · TX · Gatesville
Crain
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State prison operated by Texas Department of Criminal Justice. TDCJ Region VI. Capacity ~1,440. Custody levels housed: G1-G4, Transient, Outside Trusty, Developmentally Disabled, Substance Abuse.
Background
The Christina Melton Crain Unit (formerly the Gatesville Unit) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for females in Gatesville, Texas. The prison is along Texas State Highway 36, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of central Gatesville. The unit, with about 1,317 acres (533 ha) of space, is co-located with the Hilltop Unit, the Dr. Lane Murray Unit, and the Linda Woodman Unit. Nearby also is the Mountain View Unit, which houses all Texas female inmates on death row.
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Capacity
1,440
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1980
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Population held
female
Opened
1980
Region
TX
Security level
High
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
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Compared to other facilities in United States
3134 peersData completeness
68%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- TDCJ unit page — Crain
- TDCJ unit directory
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice — unit directory — State of Texas
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.