Texas Prison Museum
The Texas Prison Museum offers an intriguing glimpse into the lives of the state ’ s imprisoned citizens . The museum features numerous exhibits detailing the history of the Texas prison system , featuring a look inside the operations behind the fences and walls .
Huntsville ’ s prison museum is frequented by a cross-section of the public , ranging from grade-school students on field trips , to tourists from around the world . Come see our expanded museum and see what our 36,000 annual guest find interesting and unknown about the Texas Prison System .
The Texas Prison Museum , in existence since 1989 , is a non-profit business , overseen by a board of trustees . Huntsville was where the first prison , “ The Huntsville Unit ”, ( more informally referred to as the Walls ) was built for the newly established Texas Prison System in year 1848 .
The State of Texas Congress made a decision to create a commission to identify a location within Texas to establish its prison system . The commission was given some particular and specific requirement needs to support a prison system of operations and report such a location back to the Texas Congress . Sam Houston ,
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