United States · TX · Beeville
Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date. Always verify with primary sources before acting on any figure. See data sources.
For families
Step-by-step guidance using the United States system — addresses, money services, visit booking, what to bring on your first visit.
State prison operated by Texas Department of Criminal Justice. TDCJ Region IV. Capacity ~2,278. Custody levels housed: G1-G3, Transient.
Garza West Unit is a correctional transfer unit on the grounds of Chase Field Industrial Complex in unincorporated Bee County, Texas, near the city of Beeville. It is co-located with the Garza East Unit. The facility is operated by the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, administered as within Region IV. The facility is classified as a Transfer Facility that houses adult male inmates convicted of felonies and state jail felonies. The inmates are housed temporarily after their transfer from county jails and are held no longer than two years, as per Texas Department of Criminal Justice policy.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
2,278
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1994
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Population held
male
Opened
1994
Region
TX
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
No conditions summary available yet.
No visiting information available.
No mailing information available.
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
No major issues documented in our database.
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.
ad mumps season struck Texas . After spreading west from Arkansas, the disease cropped up at three South Texas prisons north of Corpus Christi and near McAllen: Lopez State Jail, Garza West Unit and the 2,900-person McConnell Unit. That June, representatives from a different worker union—a branch of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees—showed up at a meeting of the
How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Under CC-BY-4.0. Include the URL and access date; the site is a living reference and entries can change.
World Prisons. (2026). Garza West. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/garza-west-unit
"Garza West." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/garza-west-unit.
@misc{worldprisons-garza-west-unit,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Garza West},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/garza-west-unit},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}