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The Gainesville State Juvenile Correctional Facility, formerly Gainesville State School, is a juvenile correctional facility of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department in unincorporated Cooke County, Texas, near Gainesville. The fenced, maximum security state school is located on a 160-acre (65 ha) tract east of Gainesville, 75 miles (121 km) north of Dallas, along Farm to Market Road 678 and near Interstate 35. Gainesville is a maximum security facility and is fenced. As of 2012 it is the largest juvenile correctional facility in Texas. As of 2012 it houses 270 teenagers.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1916
Operational
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Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1916
Region
Cooke County
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
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World Prisons. (2026). Gainesville State Juvenile Correctional Facility. Retrieved July 22, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/gainesville-state-juvenile-correctional-facility
"Gainesville State Juvenile Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/gainesville-state-juvenile-correctional-facility.
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