Facilities · Prison
Polunsky Unit
Livingston, Polk County, Texas · capacity 2,984
Also reported as Polunksy Unit.
73 deaths are recorded here, from 2017 to 2025; all by name.
- undetermined 69
- illness 2
- suicide 1
- other person 1
The people
- Deb Renell McDonald July 29, 2025
- Jarrod Tolbert July 21, 2025
- William Michael Mason July 4, 2025
- Joseph Andrew Prystash June 19, 2025
- Jeffery Charles Jackson March 18, 2025
- Dazavion Gabriel Roshun Crane February 10, 2025
- James Griffin January 15, 2025
- James Harris January 15, 2025
- Henry Monterrubio January 12, 2025
- Valentine Andrew Ayala November 15, 2024
- Charles Wayne Holbrook September 29, 2024
- Alex Crank August 19, 2024
- Jeffery Mikeal Butler August 10, 2024
- Christian Giovanni Herrera August 9, 2024
- Jimmy James Brite August 4, 2024
- Byron Dale Brinkley June 13, 2024
- Louis Perez May 2, 2024
- Harry C. Lee May 2, 2024
- Ryan Snyder May 1, 2024
- Lasalle Davis April 26, 2024
- Joe Acosta April 10, 2024
- Mark Anthony Rodriguez February 4, 2024
- Eddie Ray Sosa December 26, 2023
- Jodie Jamar Williams December 24, 2023
- Thomas Caudill September 26, 2023
- Lavonte T. Silver September 2, 2023
- Arnoldo Ruiz August 20, 2023
- Jamie Charles Nonn July 9, 2023
- Charles Felix Bean July 3, 2023
- Willie Curtis Mayfield March 30, 2023
- Thomas Lynn Brown February 5, 2023
- Terence Tremaine Andrus January 21, 2023
- Fred Warner Owens December 25, 2022
- Clarence Dewayne Willis September 11, 2022
- Erick Saucedo August 19, 2022
- Darrick Bolar Hastings February 26, 2022
- Brandon Daniel October 30, 2021
- Eduardo Gonzalez October 26, 2021
- Jeff Arthur Smith September 5, 2021
- Lawrence Herman Aikens May 1, 2021
- Curtis Lee Armstrong March 4, 2021
- Joe Franco Garza, Jr. December 29, 2020
- John Villareal December 21, 2020
- David Sidney Hisey November 27, 2020
- Alejandro Carrillo September 12, 2020
- Christopher Karl Owens September 12, 2020
- Guadalupe Luna July 7, 2020
- Tilwen Joseph Green December 9, 2019
- Paul Johnson November 26, 2019
- Robert Nunez November 10, 2019
- Otis Junior Moore October 12, 2019
- Don Ray White October 11, 2019
- Derek Briggs August 4, 2019
- Ignacio Gomez July 21, 2019
- James Musgrove July 4, 2019
- Ronnie Hughes November 27, 2018
- Kenneth Ray Cawell October 27, 2018
- Oscar Martinez-Padilla October 11, 2018
- Ysidro Valencia October 6, 2018
- Albert Stafford August 10, 2018
- William Spencer March 13, 2018
- Horrace Howard February 26, 2018
- Gilbert Campos February 5, 2018
- Ronnie Hughes November 27, 2017
- Robert Wilkey October 28, 2017
- Omar Garza August 21, 2017
- Raymond Martinez August 9, 2017
- Gregory Autry July 25, 2017
- Frank Deleon April 12, 2017
- Frank Eugene Green February 28, 2017
- Ellis Edward Warren February 3, 2017
- Tito Bolden January 30, 2017
- Micah Brown Date not reported
History and conditions
Research on this facility’s history, oversight and conditions is coming.