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During the Civil War, prisoners made fabric for tents and uniforms for the Confederacy. A convict lease system operated from 1866 to 1910 for prisoner work in the private sector. Administrative headquarters for the Texas Prison System is in Huntsville, along with the death chamber.
The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville opened in 1849, one year after the state legislature created the penitentiary system. As the first state prison in Texas, the Huntsville site soon became known as the "Walls Unit" for the 15-foot brick wall that surrounds the prison yard.
Between 1924 and 1964, 362 inmates were executed by electrocution. The chair now resides at the Texas Prison Museum, located on Interstate 45 on the north side of Huntsville which features displays of historical items from the prison system, including shanks and other items confiscated from inmates.
The model of the Walls Unit of the Texas State Penitentiary at the Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas, is a miniature replica of the original facility that once housed some of the most dangerous and violent prisoners in the state.
The Texas Prison Museum held a program July 27, 2024, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the tragic Huntsville Unit (Walls) Prison Hostage Siege that began at approximately 1:00 p.m. on July 24, 1974 and lasted 11 days ending on August 3, 1974.
26 Ιουν 2021 · The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, the hometown of Sam Houston, was established in 1849. It is also referred to as the “Walls Unit” for the 15-foot masonry wall that surrounds the prison yard. Currently, it has the capacity to house 1,705 male inmates.
This penitentiary has held Kiowa chiefs Satanta and Big Tree, infamous gunslinger John Wesley Hardin, and Federal prisoners of war during the Civil War. As headquarters of the Texas prison system until 1989, the Walls Unit is the facility from which capital punishment was carried out from 1924 until 1964, and then again after 1982.
