United States · Texas · Rusk
Hodge Unit
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Hodge Unit is a state prison located in Cherokee County, Texas. Rated capacity: 989. Reported population: 939. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Jerry H. Hodge Unit is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a state prison for men in Rusk, Texas; it is on Farm to Market Road 2972, west of Texas State Highway 69 North. It opened in March 1995. It is on a 58-acre (23 ha) lot, co-located with the Skyview Unit. It has a capacity of 989 prisoners. The inmates live in traditional prison cells.
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Capacity
989
Current population
939
Occupancy
95%
Year opened
1995
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Texas Department of CorrectionsPopulation held
male
Opened
1995
Region
Texas
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
The Hodge Unit in rural east Texas lacks air-conditioning, exposing prisoners to extreme heat.
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
- 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 peersReports
- marshall-project11 Oct 2017
t God wanted him to make amends. He helped his mother into his truck and drove three hours north, past the pine forests that dot rural east Texas, to the state prison known as the Hodge Unit. Through a window in the visitation room, Sidney saw a man shuffling toward them, escorted by officers. That can’t be Allen, he thought. Prisoners often live without air-conditioning in areas where
Data completeness
84%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
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice â unit directory — State of Texas
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q24260973)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Hodge Unit. Retrieved October 25, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hodge-unit
"Hodge Unit." World Prisons. Accessed October 25, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hodge-unit.
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