United States · TX · Kenedy
Connally
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State prison operated by Texas Department of Criminal Justice. TDCJ Region IV. Capacity ~2,496. Custody levels housed: G1-G5, Security Detention, Mental Health.
Background
The John B. Connally Unit is a maximum-security prison for males located in unincorporated Karnes County, Texas, United States. It is located on Farm to Market Road 632, just east of U.S. Highway 181 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the city of Kenedy, and southeast of San Antonio. The prison, with about 813 acres (329 ha) of space, is operated by the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, administered as within Region IV. The unit is named for former governor and United States treasury secretary John B. Connally, Jr.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
2,496
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1995
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1995
Region
TX
Security level
Maximum
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
- 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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- marshall-project27 Oct 2016
Market Road 632.” I have lived on that road for nearly 20 years, yet I’ve only set foot on it once. But if I am finally released — onto the strip of asphalt that connects Texas’ Connally Unit, where I am currently incarcerated, to civilization — I'm sure it will seem like the most beautiful highway in the history of mankind. Life Inside Perspectives from those who work and live in the criminal
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 Connally
- TDCJ unit directory
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice â unit directory — State of Texas
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q6219893)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Connally. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/john-b-connally-unit
"Connally." World Prisons. Accessed October 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/john-b-connally-unit.
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