Retrieve Unit

Retrieve Unit (later Wayne Scott Unit)
Location in Texas
Location6999 Retrieve
Angleton, Texas postal address 77515
Coordinates29°05′30″N 95°28′53″W / 29.0916667°N 095.4813889°W / 29.0916667; -095.4813889
StatusOperational
Security classG1-G4, Administrative Segregation, Outside Trusty
CapacityUnit: 809 Trusty Camp: 321
OpenedSeptember 1919
ClosedMain prison: 2020
Trusty camp: Not stated
Former nameRetrieve Unit
Managed byTDCJ Correctional Institutions Division
WardenDonald Muniz, Assistant Warden Richard Waldron
CountyBrazoria County
CountryUSA
Websitewww.tdcj.state.tx.us/unit_directory../rv.html

The Retrieve Unit (TDCJ code: RV), later the Wayne Scott Unit, was a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison farm located in unincorporated Brazoria County, Texas. The unit, southwest of Houston, was along County Road 290, 8 miles (13 km) south of Angleton. Scott, which was established in September 1919, had about 5,766 acres (2,333 ha) of land.