  Location in Texas Show map of Texas James V. Allred Unit (the United States) Show map of the United States | |
| Location | 2101 FM 369 North Iowa Park, Texas 76367 |
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| Coordinates | 33°58′28″N98°35′44″W / 33.97444°N 98.59556°W /33.97444; -98.59556 |
| Status | Operational |
| Security class | G1-G5, Administrative Segregation, Safekeeping |
| Capacity | 4,438 |
| Opened | June 1995 |
| Managed by | TDCJ Correctional Institutions Division |
| Warden | Ronald Ivey |
| County | Wichita County |
| Country | USA |
| Website | www |
TheJames V. Allred Unit[2] is a prison for males located on Farm to Market Road 369 inWichita Falls,Texas,United States,[3] 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of downtown Wichita Falls.[4][5] The prison is nearIowa Park.[6] The prison, with about 320 acres (130 ha) of land, is a part of theTexas Department of Criminal Justice Region V.[4]
It opened in June 1995 and is one of the largestmaximum security units in Texas housing approximately 4,438 offenders. It consists of four departments, General Population, Administrative segregation and one of the first "Expansion cell blocks" (High Security) to be built housing some level ones Seg overflow and close custody offenders. It also contains one of Texas's "Safe Keeping Units", which are designed to house prisoners that would be in danger from other inmates.[7]
Allred opened in June 1995.[4] It was named afterJames V. Allred, aGovernor of Texas.[8]
A former inmate, a homosexual African-American named Roderick Johnson, reported that he was forced into sexual slavery by prisoners at the Allred Unit after he arrived there in September 2000. Johnson reported that prisoners forced him to go by the name "Coco" and that he was forced to submit toanal sex andoral sex.[9] Johnson said that Allred authorities denied his pleas for safekeeping until he contacted theAmerican Civil Liberties Union.[10] After Johnson left the prison, he filed a lawsuit against the prison authorities. In September 2004 a federal appeals court allowed Johnson's civil rights lawsuit to go to trial.[9] On October 18, 2005, a federal jury rejected all of Johnson's claims, finding that he produced no evidence of rape and had lied in his testimony.[11]
On August 13, 2007, Edward Brooks, 52, who is serving a life sentence for anaggravated robbery, broke out shortly after 3 pm, according to theWichita Falls Times Record News. Brooks was authorized to work in the unit without supervision. He pulled a visiting soft-drink vendor from her black Dodge car, then sped through the front gate, according to Assistant Warden Tommy Norwood. The getaway car ran out of gasoline inBurkburnett. Officers spotted him and took him into custody within an hour of his escape.[12]
James V Allred Unit- Despite the postal address stating "Iowa Park", the prison is in the Wichita Falls city limits.
Graham, who becomes eligible for parole at that same time, is held at the Allred Unit in Iowa Park, prison records show.
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