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Clemens Unit (CN) is a prison farm of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) in unincorporated Brazoria County, Texas in Greater Houston. The prison, with about , is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 2004 and Texas State Highway 36.〔"(Clemens Unit )." Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on January 17, 2010.〕 The prison, in the Texas Gulf Coast region,〔Castlebury, Glen. "(Texas' Youthful Offender Program )." ''Corrections Today''. October 1, 2002. Retrieved on November 19, 2010.〕 is in proximity to the City of Brazoria,〔Staff and Wire Reports. "(Parts of Houston join evacuation )." ''Houston Chronicle''. September 21, 2005. Retrieved on May 10, 2010.〕 and it is in proximity to the Velasco community, now a part of Freeport.〔"(Convict Leasing and State Account Farming (1883-1909) )." Texas State Library and Archives. Retrieved on April 29, 2011.〕 The prison is situated south of Houston.〔 ==History== In 1890 William C. Clemens, the chairperson of the Texas Prison Board, purchased an initial parcel of land from the Huntington Estate for $4,126.〔''Texas Department of Criminal Justice''. Turner Publishing Company, 2004. (62 ). ISBN 1-56311-964-1, ISBN 978-1-56311-964-4.〕 The prison, named after Clemens,〔"(1995 Annual Report )." Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on July 21, 2010.〕 opened in 1893.〔 The State of Texas bought the entire prison, then , in 1899.〔"(Texas Prison System )." Handbook of Texas. Retrieved on March 8, 2011.〕 The property included the William Clemens mill and sugar plantation.〔 The prison was the first state prison in Brazoria County.〔 The state later added a neighboring plantation, making Clemens have of land.〔 The state purchased additional acreage, bringing the prison to a total of .〔 In 1935 Clemens housed African-American prisoners when the system was segregated.〔Trulson, Chad R., James W. Marquart, and Ben M. Crouch. ''First Available Cell: Desegregation of the Texas Prison System''. University of Texas Press, 2009, pp. 82-82. (81 ). Retrieved from ''Google Books'' on July 16, 2010. ISBN 0-292-71983-3, ISBN 978-0-292-71983-5.〕 In 1963, before racial desegregation occurred, the facility housed first offender African Americans.〔 In the mid-1990s, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) removed older violent offenders from the institution and replaced them with younger offenders; most of them were 25 or younger. The administration segregated younger prisoners from the others; the inmates called their area a "kiddie farm."〔Berryhill, Michael. "What Really Happened To Rodeny Hulin?" ''Houston Press''. August 7, 1997. (5 ), Retrieved on January 17, 2010〕 In 1995 the State of Texas lowered its minimum age at which a juvenile can be tried as an adult from 15 to 14. Wayne Scott, the executive director of the TDCJ, established the Youth Offender Program, to house prisoners 14 to 16 years old who were sentenced as adults, new arrivals aged 17–20, and prisoners transferred out of the Texas Youth Commission, aged 16–18 and with determinate sentences.〔 Rodney Hulin, a 17-year-old prisoner, reported being raped, harassed and assaulted by fellow inmates of his age group after his November 1995 transfer to a division for younger offenders in Clemens. Although he became a symbol of a movement that advocates keeping juvenile offenders housed separately from adults in prison institutions, his case was more complex, as he was attacked by prisoners his own age. Michael Berryhill, a journalist who wrote at length about this case, found that the prison was not yet organized to support its population. After being attacked and harassed, and failing to gain protection from prison officials, Hulin hanged himself. He was saved but had suffered severe brain damage and died four months later.〔 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「Clemens Unit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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