page_title: Mountain View Unit
hierarchical_section_title: Mountain View Unit
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial photograph of the prisons in Gatesville: Christina Crain (Gatesville), Hilltop, Mountain View, Murray, Woodman, and Alfred D. Hughes units Español: Fotografía aérea de las prisiones en Gatesville: las unidades Christina Crain (Gatesville), Hilltop, Mountain View, Murray, Woodman, y Alfred D. Hughes
context_page_description: Mountain View Unit is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison housing female offenders in Gatesville, Texas. The unit, with about 97 acres of land, is located 4 miles north of central Gatesville on Farm to Market Road 215. The prison is located in a 45-minute driving distance from Waco. In addition to its other functions, Mountain View Unit houses the state's female death row inmates.
  Death row offenders are housed separately from the rest of the prisoners in single-person cells measuring 60 square feet, with each cell having a window. They do not have recreation individually. Some are allowed to watch television, though this is dependent upon agreeing to work for free, and all have a radio.
  Karla Faye Tucker, executed February 3, 1998, was the first woman to be executed in Texas since 1863. The most recent female to be executed was Lisa Coleman, executed on September 17, 2014.
  Among the better known inmates at Mountain View are Kimberly Clark Saenz, Yolanda Saldívar, Linda Carty, Brittany Holberg, Darlie Routier. As of October 11, 2019, Amber Guyger, the former Dallas Police Department officer convicted of the murder of Botham Jean is serving her sentence at the facility.
context_section_description: Mountain View Unit is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison housing female offenders in Gatesville, Texas. The unit, with about 97 acres (39 ha) of land, is located 4 miles (6.4 km) north of central Gatesville on Farm to Market Road 215. The prison is located in a 45-minute driving distance from Waco. In addition to its other functions, Mountain View Unit houses the state's female death row inmates.
  Death row offenders are housed separately from the rest of the prisoners in single-person cells measuring 60 square feet (5.6 m²), with each cell having a window. They do not have recreation individually. Some are allowed to watch television, though this is dependent upon agreeing to work for free, and all have a radio.
  Karla Faye Tucker, executed February 3, 1998, was the first woman to be executed in Texas since 1863. The most recent female to be executed was Lisa Coleman, executed on September 17, 2014.
  Among the better known inmates at Mountain View are Kimberly Clark Saenz, Yolanda Saldívar, Linda Carty, Brittany Holberg, Darlie Routier. As of October 11, 2019, Amber Guyger, the former Dallas Police Department officer convicted of the murder of Botham Jean is serving her sentence at the facility.
  As of 2004, the facility does not have a sign on the area main highway.
caption: Aerial photograph of the prisons in Gatesville, January 13, 1996, United States Geological Survey
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