A fire at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville forced 655 inmates to evacuate from the Walls Unit on Friday morning. No injuries were reported.

The longest operating prison in Texas, Huntsville Unit, caught fire Friday morning, August 25, and was forced to evacuate 655 inmates, according to a statement from Amanda Hernandez, director of ...

Hernandez said she was not concerned about the possibility of any of the evacuated inmates escaping the facility, which is known as the Huntsville Unit or Walls Unit and is located at 815 12 th St ...

Aug. 25—The Huntsville Unit, better known as the historic "Walls" Unit, has been standing for 174 years. Around 2:30 a.m. Friday, a fire alarm sounded for smoke showing at the Unit from an ...

TDCJ evacuated more than 650 inmates from the Walls Unit after an attic fire broke out, damaging the west side of its cellblocks and some administrative areas just before 2:30 a.m. Friday.

More than 600 inmates had to be evacuated after a fire erupted at the Huntsville Unit early Friday, according to the Texas ... and found heavy smoke coming from a cell block in the Walls Unit.

Matthew Garza, 28, escaped from The Huntsville Unit, also known as The “Walls Unit,” according to TDCJ. Officials say he was coming back from a court appearance in Frio County.

According to TDCJ Officials, Jesus Villarreal, 39, escaped from the Huntsville Unit early Sunday morning using a makeshift rope to scale the prison walls. Moments later, he allegedly stole a car ...

The Walls Unit houses Texas’ execution chamber. The chamber is on the east side of the prison grounds, away from where the fire happened. Death row inmates aren’t held in Huntsville.

Nicknamed as the Walls Unit, the prison is over 54 acres in the downtown area of Huntsville and the oldest Texas prison, opening in 1849. Warden Strong has worked for the Corrections Division of ...