Dr. Lane Murray Unit is a women's prison of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice located in Gatesville, Texas . The prison is located on Texas State Highway 36 , between Farm to Market Road 215 and Farm to Market Road 929. The 1,317 acres (533 ha) unit, which opened in November 1995, is co-located with the Christina Crain Unit , the Hilltop Unit , the Patrick O'Daniel Unit , and the Woodman Unit. The unit is named after Lane Murray, who was the first superintendent of the Windham School District .
1-492: 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. In 2010 the Murray Unit began to host a faith-based dormitory rehabilitation program. This article about
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