Aerial photograph of the prisons in Gatesville, January 13, 1996, United States Geological SurveyTopographical map of the Gatesville prison units, 1994, USGS - The area now contains the Murray Unit
The State of Texas, in 1997, passed a law criminalizing any sexual relations between a prisoner and prison guard after, in the 1990s, prosecutors were unable to have a prison guard at Murray convicted for coercing inmates into sexual interactions. The prison guard stated that the sexual interactions were consensual.[2]
In 2010 the Murray Unit began to host a faith-based dormitory rehabilitation program.[3]
Notable prisoners
Current
Inmate Name
Register Number
Status
Details
Kaitlin Armstrong
19482417 / 02475058
Serving a 90-year sentence; eligible for parole in 2052.[4]
Serving a 99-year sentence; eligible for parole in 2042.[10]
Elizabeth Escalona savagely beat her 2 year old daughter Jocelyn Cedillo and super glued her hands to a wall, leaving her in a coma for several days. The child suffered bleeding in the brain, bite marks, and broken ribs. Elizabeth pled guilty to one count of felony injury to a child and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. She will be eligible for parole in 2042.
Chante Jawan Mallard
06849879 / 01183569
Serving a 50 year sentence.[11] Eligible for parole in 2027.[12]
Perpetrator of the 2001 Murder of Gregory Glenn Biggs in which Biggs struck the windshield of Mallard's car and then Mallard left Biggs to die while Biggs was still lodged in the glass pane.[13][14][15]
Edith Beebe
06478363 / 01162441
Scheduled for release in 2078; eligible for parole in 2033.[16]
Convicted of physically abusing multiple children.[17][18][19]
Serving a life sentence; eligible for parole in 2037.[20]
Originally convicted in the 1980s of the murder of infant Chelsea McClellan when she was working as a licensed vocational nurse at the University Health System.[21] The amount of deaths Genene is responsible for is likely much higher, and in 2020, was convicted in the murder of infant Joshua Sawyer.[22][23][24][25]
Karla Faye Tucker - American woman executed February 3, 1998, for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863.
This list template only include facilities for post-trial long-term confinement of adult females and juvenile females sentenced as adults, of one or two years or more (referred to as "prisons" in the United States, while the word "jail" normally refers to short-term confinement facilities)
