I wish I were sure of that. AFAIK, there are some really bad folks who get special dispensation to get released late in life on "humanitarian grounds" i.e. they're really sick and prison becomes a level of punishment that approaches the sadistic. Also afaik, those releases are often grounded in the fact that the state doesn't want to spend the money required for end of life care.
OTOH, I've also heard about prison guards who have the odd duty of watching prisoners in hospitals who are all so sick they can't get out of bed and are waiting to die.
So I don't know how this works in practice.
Anyone around here with inside-the-system knowledge of the way the TDCJ handles end-of-life situations?
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I spent a few years on the UTMB Med Faculty. The big TDC “265 bed” hospital is attached. But I never entered that secure facility, the guards would bring the prisoner/patients over to John Sealy.
Interestingly, the Administrator/Warden also ran the local gun range over near Moody Gardens & the GLS Airport.
(p.s. IDK the actual size of that facility. Often hospitals are actually a bit smaller than their approved stated bed capacities.)
It’s been ~20 years, so I’m not current; IIRC there is a mental unit in
Austin.
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