United States · TX · Rosharon
Ramsey
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State prison operated by Texas Department of Criminal Justice. TDCJ Region III. Capacity ~1,865. Custody levels housed: G1-G3, G5, Security Detention, Outside Trusty.
Capacity
1,865
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1908
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1908
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
The Ramsey Unit in Rosharon, Texas, has been reported as a facility where troubled inmates throw feces at guards.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 1/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · 1 oversight report in the last 5 years
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
This facility scores 6. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 4 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersReports
- marshall-project4 Aug 2022
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- marshall-project4 Mar 2016
on the outside don’t always understand is that most of us in here will, one day, be released. Jeremy Busby is a 38-year-old inmate now incarcerated at another state prison called Ramsey Unit in Rosharon, Texas, where he’s serving a 75-year sentence for a murder he committed when he was 21. Our reporting has real impact on the criminal justice system View All Impact Our investigation into rampant
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 Ramsey
- TDCJ unit directory
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice â unit directory — State of Texas
- Wikidata (Q7290248)
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Ramsey. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/ramsey
"Ramsey." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/ramsey.
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