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Darrington Unit is a state prison located in Brazoria County, Texas. Rated capacity: 1,931. Reported population: 1,837. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Memorial Unit (DA), known as the Darrington Unit until 2023, is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) men's maximum security prison located in Brazoria County, Texas, with a Rosharon, Texas postal address; it is not inside the Rosharon census-designated place. Most of the unit is in an unincorporated area, while a portion is in the city limits of Sandy Point. The unit is along Farm to Market Road 521, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Rosharon, and about 30 miles (48 km) south of Downtown Houston. The prison has about 6,770 acres (2,740 ha) of land. The prison has the Region III Administrative Office of the Windham School District.
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Capacity
1,931
Current population
1,837
Occupancy
95%
Year opened
1933
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Texas Department of CorrectionsPopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1933
Region
Texas
Security level
Maximum
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
0/100
Low concern0/100
- 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 peersOccupancythis: 95% · peers avg: 93% (+3%)
Capacity (beds)this: 1931 · peers avg: 547 (+253%)
Data 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
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5225306)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Darrington Unit. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/darrington-unit
Chicago
"Darrington Unit." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/darrington-unit.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-darrington-unit,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Darrington Unit},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/darrington-unit},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}