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Wallace Unit
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Wallace Unit is a state prison located in Mitchell County, Texas. Rated capacity: 1,448. Reported population: 1,121. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Capacity
1,448
Current population
1,121
Occupancy
77%
Year opened
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Texas Department of CorrectionsPopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
—
Region
Texas
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
The Wallace Pack Unit in Navasota, Texas, faces legal challenges regarding lethal heat conditions, with a class action suit seeking cooler temperatures. Statistics indicate that approximately four out of five people in Texas prison cells do not have air-conditioning.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
The facility is subject to a class action suit to force cooler conditions due to lethal heat, alongside wrongful death lawsuits. The lack of air-conditioning in the majority of Texas prison cells is cited as a systemic issue.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 5/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
- · In-custody-death signal 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 peersHigher risk than 0% of peer facilities in United States.
Reports
- marshall-project11 Oct 2017
of Criminal Justice is facing numerous wrongful death lawsuits, one of them mounted by Robert Allen Webb’s family, along with a class action suit to force cooler conditions at the Wallace Pack Unit in Navasota, about 70 miles northwest of Houston. In Texas prison cells, about 4 of 5 people do not have air-conditioning. SOURCE: Marshall Project Analysis of TDCJ statistics The state has claimed
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
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Wallace Unit. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/wallace-unit
"Wallace Unit." World Prisons. Accessed October 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/wallace-unit.
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