United States · TX · Midway
Ferguson
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State prison operated by Texas Department of Criminal Justice. TDCJ Region I. Capacity ~2,417. Custody levels housed: G1-G5,Security Detention, Transient.
Background
Jim Ferguson Unit (FE) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for men located in unincorporated Madison County, Texas. The 4,355-acre (1,762 ha) prison is located on Farm to Market Road 247, near Midway and 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Huntsville.
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Capacity
2,417
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1962
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Population held
male
Opened
1962
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
Compared to other facilities in United States
3276 peersData completeness
68%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- TDCJ unit page — Ferguson
- TDCJ unit directory
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice — unit directory — State of Texas
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.