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Cleveland Unit - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 30°21′54″N 95°04′22″W / 30.36500°N 95.07278°W

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Oliver J. Bell Unit
Location in Texas
Location	901 E 5th St Cleveland, Texas 77327
Coordinates	30°21′54″N 95°04′22″W / 30.36500°N 95.07278°W / 30.36500; -95.07278
Status	Operational
Security class	G1, G2
Capacity	520
Opened	September 1989
Former name	Cleveland Correctional Center
Managed by	Texas Department of Criminal Justice (as of 2023)
Warden	Mohamed Touhami
County	Liberty County
Country	USA
Website	www.tdcj.texas.gov/unit_directory/cv.html

The Oliver J. Bell Unit is a prison for men in Cleveland, Texas, operated by Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). The roughly 40-acre (16 ha) facility is .25 mi (0.40 km) north of downtown Cleveland. The TDCJ refers to the prison as the "Oliver J. Bell Unit",^[1] while GEO Group, the former operator, referred to it as the Cleveland Correctional Center.^[2] The facility is along U.S. Route 59.

History

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) proposed a prerelease center along Atascocita Road in the Humble, Texas, area. The local population opposed the measure. CCA instead planned to open a facility in Cleveland, where the local leaders were more receptive to the plan. The Cleveland Unit, then a $12 million ($24,000,000 when adjusted for inflation), 500-bed prerelease unit, officially opened on September 28, 1989. As of that year, it was the fourth of the four privately operated prisons to be built in Texas.^[3]

Cleveland became a GEO Group facility on January 1, 1999.^[2] As of September 1, 2015. MTC took over operations of the Cleveland facility.^[4] In September 2023, The Texas Department of Criminal Justice took over the full operation of the Bell Unit.

Cleveland prison renamed the Oliver J. Bell Unit in honor of former TBCJ chairman in March 2020. https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/unit_directory/cv.html

Operations

The 40-acre (16 ha) site, located along the Piney Woods along U.S. 59, has a 124,000-square-foot (11,500 m²) prison facility. Cindy Horswell of the Houston Chronicle said that the "unobtrusive" unit with "its concrete walls and bright blue entry would look like any other office building except for the high barbed-wire fence and 53 security cameras."^[3] Since the prison is a private facility, the operators pay local taxes.^[5] The prison accepts minimum-security male prisoners who are within three years of parole.^[2]

References

^ "Cleveland Unit Archived 2010-07-25 at the Wayback Machine." Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on May 10, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Bell Unit Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine." GEO Group. Retrieved on October 2, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Horswell, Cindy. "Cleveland prison puts Texas on top in private facilities." Houston Chronicle. Friday September 29, 1989. A26. Retrieved on May 10, 2010.
^ "Texas Department of Criminal Justice Awards MTC Contracts to Operate Lockhart and Cleveland Correctional Centers". Management & Training Corporation. Archived from the original on 11 September 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
^ Horswell, Cindy. "For hard-hit economy of Liberty County, crime officially pays." Houston Chronicle. Thursday June 29, 1995. A30. Retrieved on July 23, 2010.

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External links

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Prison units

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Region II	Beto Boyd Coffield Hodge Michael Powledge Telford
Region III	Clemens Hightower Jester III Memorial (formerly Darrington) Ramsey Stiles Stringfellow Terrell (formerly Ramsey III) Vance
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Private	Bridgeport Cleveland Diboll Estes Kyle Lockhart♀ B. Moore
Former units	Central Retrieve (later Wayne Scott)

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Region IV	Dominguez Lopez Ney Sanchez
Region V	Formby Wheeler
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Private	Bartlett (closed 2017) Bradshaw (closed 2020) Dawson♂♀ (closed 2013) Lindsey Willacy County

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Region II	C. Moore
Region IV	Cotulla Fort Stockton Garza East (closed 2020) Garza West
Region V	Tulia Ware
Region VI	Marlin Middleton San Saba

Psychiatric units

Region III	Wayne Scott (formerly Jester IV)

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