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The James V. Allred Unit〔''Texas Department of Criminal Justice''. Turner Publishing Company, 2004. (50 ). ISBN 1-56311-964-1, ISBN 978-1-56311-964-4.〕 is a prison for males located on Farm to Market Road 369 in Wichita Falls, Texas, United States, northwest of downtown Wichita Falls.〔"(Allred Unit )." Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on May 10, 2010.〕〔"(Sheet Number 1 )." City of Wichita Falls. Retrieved on September 22, 2010.〕〔"(Sheet Number 2 )." City of Wichita Falls. Retrieved on September 22, 2010.〕〔"(Sheet Number 9 )." City of Wichita Falls. Retrieved on September 22, 2010.〕〔"(Sheet Number 10 )." City of Wichita Falls. Retrieved on September 22, 2010.〕 The prison is in proximity to Iowa Park.〔"(ACLU Says Faulty Investigation by Texas Corrections Department Led to Grand Jury's Failure to Indict Rape Suspects )." ACLU. Retrieved on May 10, 2010.〕 The prison, with about of land, is a part of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Region V.〔 It opened in the summer of 1995 and is one of the largest maximum security units in Texas housing approximately 3600 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.〔("OFFENDER ORIENTATION HANDBOOK", p. 6, ''Texas Department of Criminal Justice'', November 2004, Retried on 2014-01-09 )〕 ==History== Allred opened in June 1995.〔 It was named after James V. Allred, a Governor of Texas.〔"(1995 Annual Report )." Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on July 21, 2010.〕 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 to anal sex and oral sex.〔Liptak, Adam. "Ex-Inmate's Suit Offers View Into Sexual Slavery in Prisons." ''The New York Times''. October 16, 2004. (1 ). Retrieved on May 10, 2010.〕 Johnson said that Allred authorities denied his pleas for safekeeping until Johnson contacted the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).〔Johnson, Roderick. "(What It Feels Like...to Be a Prison Sex Slave )." ''Esquire''. August 1, 2005. Retrieved on September 22, 2010.〕 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.〔 On August 13, 2007, Edward Brooks, 52, who is serving a life sentence for an aggravated robbery, broke out shortly after 3 p.m., according to the ''Wichita 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, then sped through the front gate, according to Assistant Warden Tommy Norwood. The getaway car ran out of gasoline in Burkburnett. Officers spotted him and took him in custody within an hour of the breakout.〔("Inmate escapes: Convicted burglar captured after fleeing Allred" ), Author: Carmen Castro, ''Times Record News'', 2007-08-13, Retrieved: 2014-01-09〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James V. Allred Unit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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