Texas Department of Criminal Justice Region 4 Dolph Briscoe Unit
The Dolph Briscoe Unit or Briscoe Unit is a Texas state prison located near the town of Dilley in Frio County, Texas. The unit opened in January 1992 and is named for former Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Prison
- Description: prison near the town of Dilley in Frio County, Texas
- Also known as: “Briscoe prison”, “Dolph Briscoe Unit”, and “TDCJ Briscoe”
- Address: 1459 West Highway 85, Dilley, TX 78017
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include South Texas Family Residential Center.
South Texas Family Residential Center
Prison
The South Texas Family Residential Center is the largest immigrant detention center in the United States. First opened in December 2014 in Dilley, Texas, it has a capacity of 2,400 and is intended to detain mainly women and children from Central America. South Texas Family Residential Center is situated 1 mile west of Texas Department of Criminal Justice Region 4 Dolph Briscoe Unit.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dilley.
Dilley
Town
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dilley is a town in Frio County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,274 at the 2020 census. It is located off Interstate 35, south of the county seat in Pearsall.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Region 4 Dolph Briscoe Unit
- Category: government building
- Location: Frio, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
28.6597° or 28° 39′ 35″ northLongitude
-99.18893° or 99° 11′ 20″ westElevation
577 feet (176 metres)Operator
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Correctional Institutions DivisionOpen location code
76W2MR56+VCOpenStreetMap ID
way 426372446OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=prisonGeoNames ID
9680148Wikidata ID
Q16991925
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“Texas Department of Criminal Justice Region 4 Dolph Briscoe Unit” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “وحدة دولف بريسكو”
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