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  Location in Texas | |
| Location | 3872 FM 350 South Livingston, Texas address 77351 USA |
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| Coordinates | 30°41′56″N 95°00′51″W / 30.6989°N 95.0143°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Security class | G1-G5, Administrative Segregation, Death Row |
| Capacity | 2,984 |
| Opened | November 1993 |
| Managed by | TDCJ Correctional Institutions Division |
| Warden | Daniel Dickerson |
| County | Polk County |
| Country | United States |
| Website | www |
Allan B. Polunsky Unit (TL, formerly the Terrell Unit) is a prison in West Livingston, unincorporated Polk County, Texas, United States, located approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Livingston along Farm to Market Road 350.[1][2] The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) operates the facility. The unit houses the State of Texas death row for men, and it has a maximum capacity of 2,900.[2] Livingston Municipal Airport is located on the other side of FM 350.[3] The unit, along the Big Thicket, is 60 miles (97 km) east of Huntsville.[4]
Polunsky was named after Allan B. Polunsky, a former chairman of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice and former chairman of the Public Safety Commission, the governing board of the Texas Department of Public Safety.[5][6][7]
Polunsky houses Texas' "supermax" units[8] and is notable for being the location of Texas's death row for men (executions, though, are conducted at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville).
- ^ "2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: West Livingston CDP, TX" (PDF). Suitland, Maryland: U.S. Census Bureau. p. 1 (PDF p. 2/4). Retrieved August 12, 2022.
Allan B Polunsky Unit
- Note the 2010 U.S. Census maps: index and pages 1 and 2 - ^ a b "Polunsky Unit." Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on January 27, 2012.
- ^ "Plane makes emergency landing near prison." Associated Press at The Victoria Advocate. Friday April 30, 2004. Local/State 7A. Retrieved on Google News (page 4 of 43), May 9, 2010.
- ^ Perkinson, Robert. Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire. First Edition. Metropolitan Books, 2010. p. 37; ISBN 978-0-8050-8069-8.
- ^ Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Turner Publishing Company, 2004. 103. ISBN 1-56311-964-1, ISBN 978-1-56311-964-4.
- ^ Public Safety Commission website. Texas Department of Public Safety. Retrieved on September 26, 2010.
- ^ "Polunsky Beitel Green | Attorneys At Law". www.mortgagelaw.com. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
- ^ Ward, Mike. "Death row inmates free guard, meet with activists", Austin American-Statesman. February 23, 2000. "A prison guard held hostage by two execution-bound killers inside Texas' super max death row [...]" and "Tuesday deep inside the maximum-security Terrell Unit just outside [...]"