Roach Unit News Today

CHILDRESS - A correctional officer with 44 months of service to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice prevented an escape attempt from the Roach Unit in Childress Tuesday.

Securus Technologies, based in Carrollton, makes the tablets and said it already has contracts with 25 departments of correction across the country.

2nd Panhandle-area state prison workers death linked to COVID-19 this week The Texas Department of Criminal Justice on Friday announced it is grieving the loss of a Panhandle-area state prison employee that is connected to the COVID-19 virus. Dorothy Caylor, a 62-year-old human resources specialist who had 15 years of service with the TDCJ and was assigned to the Roach Unit in Childress, died Thursday at an Amarillo hospital, according to a news release from TDCJ. Caylors death is the second ...