Mark Stiles Unit
  Location in Texas | |
| Location |
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|---|---|
| Status | Operational |
| Security class | G1-G5, Security Detention, Safekeeping |
| Capacity | 2,981 |
| Opened | June 1993 |
| Managed by | TDCJ Correctional Institutions Division |
| Warden | Vernet Davis |
| Website | tdcj |
Mark W. Stiles Unit is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice men's prison located in an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Texas,[1] near Beaumont. The unit, located along Farm to Market Road 3514, is 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of downtown Beaumont. The approximately 776 acres (314 ha) unit is co-located with the Gist Unit and the LeBlanc Unit.[2]
The unit opened in June 1993. The unit serves as the University of Texas Medical Branch hub site for treatment of HIV and other infectious diseases.[2] As a result, the Stiles facility houses many HIV positive prisoners.[3] A hospice for prisoners with HIV opened at Stiles in 1997.[4]
The unit has offered Buddhist meditation classes since 2003.[5]
In 2011 the metal products plant closed; its operations were consolidated to the plants at the Coffield Unit and the Powledge Unit.[6]
In 2023 the unit saw three inmate on inmate homicides. The homicides were part of a trend of rising violence in TDCJ facilities which prompted a statewide lockdown of all facilities. [7]
Notable prisoners
[edit]- Elmer Wayne Henley[8]
- John Curtis Dewberry[9]
- James Bergstrom[10]
References
[edit]- ↑ "2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Jefferson County, TX" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. p. 14 (PDF p. 15/50). Retrieved August 14, 2022.
Mark W Stiles Unit
- 1 2 "Stiles Unit Archived January 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine." Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on July 20, 2010.
- ↑ Bass, Emily. "Separate but Equal?" HIV Positive. December/January 2000. No. 6. Here Publishing. 30. Retrieved from Google Books on July 20, 2010. ISSN 1522-3086.
- ↑ "Providing Services To Inmates Living With HIV," Centers for Disease Control. August 2001. 3 (3/3). Retrieved on July 20, 2010.
- ↑ Turner, Allan. "Meditation helps inmates reach 'natural awareness'." Houston Chronicle. Saturday September 3, 2011. Retrieved on September 23, 2011.
- ↑ Ward, Mike. "Prison industry programs a victim of economic recession[link removed]," Austin American-Statesman. Sunday September 4, 2011. Retrieved on September 23, 2011.
- ↑ Eslinger, Scott. "30% of Texas inmate deaths in 2023 happened in Southeast Texas prisons," Friday September 8, 2023. Retrieved on November 14, 2025.
- ↑ "Henley, Elmer Wayne Jr" Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on November 11, 2022.
- ↑ https://vimeo.com/143798965 The Dewberry brothers’ case: on the trail of the secrets
- ↑ https://inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/search.action[dead link]
External links
[edit]
- "Stiles Unit." Texas Department of Criminal Justice
- Rodriguez, Brenda. "For ill prisoners, time at Beaumont's 'death camp' can be for life." San Antonio Express-News. September 14, 1997. 14A.
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