Facilities · Prison
Ferguson Unit
Midway, Madison County, Texas · capacity 2,421
Also reported as Ferguson Unity; Jim Ferguson Unit; TDCJ - Jim Ferguson Unit.
23 deaths are recorded here, from 2006 to 2025; all by name.
- undetermined 21
- suicide 2
The people
- Lance John Showen June 21, 2025
- Billy Joel Polasek April 5, 2025
- Nestor Hernandez April 2, 2025
- George Neftaly Rodriguez December 18, 2024
- Grant Lee Winingham June 21, 2024
- Gary Wright April 7, 2024
- Tyler Douglas Clarke March 24, 2024
- Jordan Deshun White December 22, 2023
- Stephen Terry-Blake Pardue September 8, 2023
- Efren Moreno August 1, 2022
- Victor Jimmy Vela June 3, 2022
- Pedro Rangel January 10, 2022
- Charles McDonald November 21, 2021
- Elijah Lorenzo Colbert February 21, 2021
- Eric Anthony Alva October 15, 2020
- Christopher Blane McFaul August 11, 2020
- Teson James Toups May 17, 2020
- Donald Michael Wade December 27, 2019
- Rene David Tellez July 23, 2019
- Emmett Asbury February 10, 2018
- Daniel Chavez February 1, 2018
- Alberto Buentello December 20, 2016
- Michael Walker July 13, 2006
History and conditions
Research on this facility’s history, oversight and conditions is coming.