United States · TX · Huntsville
Goree
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State prison operated by Texas Department of Criminal Justice. TDCJ Region I. Capacity ~1,321. Custody levels housed: G1-G3, Administrative Segregation, Outside Trusty, Transient.
Capacity
1,321
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1907
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1907
Region
TX
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
A correctional officer at the Goree Unit reported that staff sent a prisoner to solitary confinement after finding his radio had been doctored to hear and transmit guard communications.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
This facility scores 5. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 3 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersReports
- marshall-project26 Mar 2015
how to modify their own radios. Nobody, as far as Draper knows, was ever caught. “The guards are so clueless,” he says. That’s less the case today. A correctional officer at the Goree Unit, near Huntsville, Texas, who asked not to be named said staff recently sent a prisoner to solitary confinement after they found that his radio had been doctored. “He could hear our radios and he could transmit
Data completeness
68%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- TDCJ unit page â Goree
- TDCJ unit directory
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice â unit directory — State of Texas
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5586143)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Goree. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/goree-unit
"Goree." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/goree-unit.
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author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Goree},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-10-20}
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