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Gurney
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State prison operated by Texas Department of Criminal Justice. TDCJ Region II. Capacity ~1,130. Custody levels housed: G1-G3, Transient.
Capacity
1,130
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1993
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1993
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
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 10/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Multiple in-custody-death signals in sources
This facility scores 10. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 8 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersReports
- marshall-project11 Oct 2017
loved ones died in hot prisons. They include Rodney Adams, a Dallas man sentenced to four years for driving while intoxicated who started convulsing shortly after arriving at the Gurney Unit in east Texas in 2012. He died less than two days after his arrival — his body temperature had reached 109.9. For Robert Allen Webb, death didn’t come as quickly. “I’m feeling dizzy, weary, cramps, muscle
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 Gurney
- TDCJ unit directory
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice â unit directory — State of Texas
- Wikidata (Q6209745)
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Gurney. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/gurney
"Gurney." World Prisons. Accessed October 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/gurney.
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author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Gurney},
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urldate = {2026-10-21}
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