Huntsville Unit

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Huntsville Unit is a historic Texas state prison in Huntsville known for housing the state's execution chamber and serving as a major intake and processing facility for inmates.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Texas state prison
correctional facility
prison
alsoKnownAs The Walls
Walls Unit
architecturalStyle 19th-century prison architecture
city Huntsville, Alabama
surface form: Huntsville
containsFacility Texas execution chamber
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dateOpened 1849
governingLaw Texas state law
hasExecutionMethod lethal injection
hasFacilityType intake and diagnostic facility
transfer facility
hasFunction execution facility
intake facility for Texas state prisoners
processing facility for Texas state prisoners
state prison for adult offenders
hasInmatePopulationType male prisoners
hasNearbyFacility Texas Department of Criminal Justice
surface form: Texas Department of Criminal Justice headquarters in Huntsville
hasNotableFeature central role in Texas prison system
red brick perimeter wall
hasTransportationAccess Interstate 45
U.S. Highway 190 NERFINISHED
hasWardenType senior warden
isHistoric true
isOldestStatePrisonIn Texas
jurisdiction Texas
surface form: State of Texas
locatedIn Huntsville, Texas, United States
surface form: Huntsville, Texas
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Texas
surface form: State of Texas

Walker County, Texas NERFINISHED
managedBy TDCJ
surface form: Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
near Sam Houston State University
notableFor being the site of all Texas state executions in the modern era
historic significance in Texas corrections history
operator Texas Department of Criminal Justice
ownedBy Texas Department of Criminal Justice
partOf Texas Department of Criminal Justice
surface form: Texas state prison system
previousExecutionMethod electric chair
hanging
region East Texas
securityClassification maximum security
medium security
state Texas
streetAddress 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas
supervisedBy Texas Board of Criminal Justice
usedFor carrying out executions by the State of Texas
housing death row inmates immediately prior to execution

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Input
Subject: Huntsville Unit
Description of subject: Huntsville Unit is a historic Texas state prison in Huntsville known for housing the state's execution chamber and serving as a major intake and processing facility for inmates.

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Huntsville, Texas, United States hasPrison Huntsville Unit
subject surface form: Huntsville, Texas
Texas Department of Criminal Justice headquartersFacility Huntsville Unit
this entity surface form: Huntsville Unit administrative complex
Walls Unit alsoKnownAs Huntsville Unit
Texas state execution chamber locatedIn Huntsville Unit
Texas state execution chamber partOf Huntsville Unit
this entity surface form: Huntsville Unit prison
Texas state execution chamber associatedWith Huntsville Unit
this entity surface form: Huntsville Unit warden
Walker County contains Huntsville Unit
subject surface form: Walker County, Texas