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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the prison in Brazoria County later known as the Wayne Scott Unit, see <a href="Retrieve_Unit" title="Retrieve Unit">Retrieve Unit</a>.</div>

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</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org">Wayne Scott Unit<br>(formerly the Jester IV Unit)</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader category"><a href="Texas_Department_of_Criminal_Justice" title="Texas Department of Criminal Justice">Texas Department of Criminal Justice</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef;color:inherit;">Geography</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Fort_Bend_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Bend County">Fort Bend County</a>, <a href="Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, <a href="United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef;color:inherit;">Organization</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Hospital#Types" title="Hospital">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="Psychiatric_hospital" title="Psychiatric hospital">Psychiatric</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef;color:inherit;">History</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Opened</th><td class="infobox-data">1993</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef;color:inherit;">Links</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/unit_directory/j4.html">https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/unit_directory/j4.html</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p>The <b>Wayne Scott Unit</b> (<b>J4</b>), formerly known as the <b>Beauford H. Jester IV Unit</b>, is a psychiatric facility of the <a href="Texas_Department_of_Criminal_Justice" title="Texas Department of Criminal Justice">Texas Department of Criminal Justice</a> located in <a href="Unincorporated_area" title="Unincorporated area">unincorporated</a> <a href="Fort_Bend_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Bend County">Fort Bend County</a>, <a href="Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, United States, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of <a href="Richmond%2C_Texas" title="Richmond, Texas">Richmond</a>. It is a part of the <a href="Jester_State_Prison_Farm" class="mw-redirect" title="Jester State Prison Farm">Jester State Prison Farm</a> property and it is located on <a href="U.S._Highway_90" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Highway 90">U.S. Highway 90</a>A.<sup id="cite_ref-Profile_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Profile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The unit was established in November 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-Profile_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Profile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The facility features wide hallways, skylights, and floor-to-ceiling windows. The cement walls have murals made by prisoners that depict wildlife.<sup id="cite_ref-Grissom192_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grissom192-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jester IV is located in the middle of a cornfield. After the closure of the nearby <a href="Central_Unit" title="Central Unit">Central Unit</a> in 2011, <a href="John_Whitmire" title="John Whitmire">John Whitmire</a>, the chairperson of the criminal justice committee of the <a href="Texas_Senate" title="Texas Senate">Texas Senate</a>, said that the decision to open Jester IV was a decision that "I think we'll regret."<sup id="cite_ref-Whosnext_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whosnext-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011 a middle school, James Bowie Middle School, and a strip commercial center opened across the street from Jester IV and <a href="Jester_III_Unit" title="Jester III Unit">Jester III Unit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Whosnext_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whosnext-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>As of March 2013 Jester IV housed 550 prisoners. They are among the most mentally ill and violent prisoners in the TDCJ. While male death row prisoners are normally housed in the <a href="Polunsky_Unit" class="mw-redirect" title="Polunsky Unit">Polunsky Unit</a> near <a href="Livingston%2C_Texas" title="Livingston, Texas">Livingston, Texas</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Grissom192_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grissom192-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> eight are instead housed in Jester IV as of March 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-Grissom192_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grissom192-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Marc Bookman of <i><a href="Mother_Jones_(magazine)" title="Mother Jones (magazine)">Mother Jones</a></i> said in 2013 that "by all accounts Jester IV is a quieter place" compared to Polunsky.<sup id="cite_ref-Bookman3_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bookman3-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The prison was renamed to Wayne Scott Unit in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name "Wayne Scott Unit" was formerly held by a <a href="Brazoria_County%2C_Texas" title="Brazoria County, Texas">Brazoria County</a> prison originally known as the <a href="Retrieve_Unit" title="Retrieve Unit">Retrieve Unit</a>; the main facility of that prison closed in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-McCartymainclosing_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCartymainclosing-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Treatment_program">Treatment program</h2></div>

<p>As of March 2013 a prisoner typically comes from his regularly assigned unit to Jester IV for several days of psychiatric treatment. After the prisoner is stabilized, the prisoner is sent back to his regular unit. There are prisoners that have stayed longer.<sup id="cite_ref-Grissom192_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grissom192-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_inmates">Notable inmates</h2></div>

<ul><li><a href="Andre_Thomas" title="Andre Thomas">Andre Thomas</a> (Death row)<sup id="cite_ref-Grissom192_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grissom192-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> - Moved from the <a href="Polunsky_Unit" class="mw-redirect" title="Polunsky Unit">Polunsky Unit</a> due to mental health issues.<sup id="cite_ref-Bookman3_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bookman3-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li><a href="Eddie_Ray_Routh" class="mw-redirect" title="Eddie Ray Routh">Eddie Ray Routh</a> - serving life without parole. Moved on to <a href="Ramsey_I_Unit" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramsey I Unit">Ramsey I Unit</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li><a href="2012_Waller_familicide" class="mw-redirect" title="2012 Waller familicide">Trey Eric Sesler</a> - arrived in 2019, serving life without parole. <sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/unit_directory/j4.html">Jester IV Unit</a>. <a href="Texas_Department_of_Criminal_Justice" title="Texas Department of Criminal Justice">Texas Department of Criminal Justice</a>.</li></ul>

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<li><a href="Ellis_Unit" title="Ellis Unit">Ellis</a></li>

<li><a href="W.J._Estelle_Unit" title="W.J. Estelle Unit">Estelle</a> (formerly Ellis II)</li>

<li><a href="Ferguson_Unit" title="Ferguson Unit">Ferguson</a></li>

<li><a href="Goree_Unit" class="mw-redirect" title="Goree Unit">Goree</a></li>

<li><a href="Huntsville_Unit" title="Huntsville Unit">Huntsville</a></li>

<li><a href="Gib_Lewis_Unit" title="Gib Lewis Unit">Lewis</a></li>

<li><a href="Allan_B._Polunsky_Unit" title="Allan B. Polunsky Unit">Polunsky</a> (formerly Terrell)</li>

<li><a href="J._Dale_Wainwright_Unit" title="J. Dale Wainwright Unit">Wainwright</a> (formerly Eastham)</li>

<li><a href="Wynne_Unit" title="Wynne Unit">Wynne</a></li></ul>

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<li><a href="Coffield_Unit" title="Coffield Unit">Coffield</a></li>

<li><a href="Hodge_Unit" title="Hodge Unit">Hodge</a></li>

<li><a href="Mark_W._Michael_Unit" title="Mark W. Michael Unit">Michael</a></li>

<li><a href="Louis_C._Powledge_Unit" title="Louis C. Powledge Unit">Powledge</a></li>

<li><a href="Barry_Telford_Unit" title="Barry Telford Unit">Telford</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Region III</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Clemens_Unit" title="Clemens Unit">Clemens</a></li>

<li><a href="L.V._Hightower_Unit" title="L.V. Hightower Unit">Hightower</a></li>

<li><a href="Jester_III_Unit" title="Jester III Unit">Jester III</a></li>

<li><a href="Memorial_Unit" title="Memorial Unit">Memorial</a> (formerly Darrington)</li>

<li><a href="Ramsey_Unit" title="Ramsey Unit">Ramsey</a></li>

<li><a href="Mark_Stiles_Unit" title="Mark Stiles Unit">Stiles</a></li>

<li><a href="Stringfellow_Unit" title="Stringfellow Unit">Stringfellow</a></li>

<li><a href="Terrell_Unit" title="Terrell Unit">Terrell</a> (formerly Ramsey III)</li>

<li><a href="Carol_Vance_Unit" title="Carol Vance Unit">Vance</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Region IV</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Dolph_Briscoe_Unit" title="Dolph Briscoe Unit">Briscoe</a></li>

<li><a href="John_B._Connally_Unit" title="John B. Connally Unit">Connally</a></li>

<li><a href="James_Lynaugh_Unit" title="James Lynaugh Unit">Lynaugh</a></li>

<li><a href="McConnell_Unit" title="McConnell Unit">McConnell</a></li>

<li><a href="Clarence_N._Stevenson_Unit" title="Clarence N. Stevenson Unit">Stevenson</a></li>

<li><a href="Ruben_M._Torres_Unit" title="Ruben M. Torres Unit">Torres</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Region V</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="James_V._Allred_Unit" title="James V. Allred Unit">Allred</a></li>

<li><a href="Clements_Unit" title="Clements Unit">Clements</a></li>

<li><a href="Dalhart_Unit" title="Dalhart Unit">Dalhart</a></li>

<li><a href="Price_Daniel_Unit" title="Price Daniel Unit">Daniel</a></li>

<li><a href="Rufe_Jordan_Unit" title="Rufe Jordan Unit">Jordan</a></li>

<li><a href="T.L._Roach%2C_Jr._Unit" class="mw-redirect" title="T.L. Roach, Jr. Unit">Roach</a></li>

<li><a href="Preston_E._Smith_Unit" title="Preston E. Smith Unit">Smith</a></li>

<li><a href="Daniel_Webster_Wallace_Unit" title="Daniel Webster Wallace Unit">Wallace</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Region VI</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Christina_Crain_Unit" class="mw-redirect" title="Christina Crain Unit">Crain</a>♀</li>

<li><a href="Hilltop_Unit" title="Hilltop Unit">Hilltop</a>♀</li>

<li><a href="William_P._Hobby_Unit" title="William P. Hobby Unit">Hobby</a>♀</li>

<li><a href="Alfred_D._Hughes_Unit" title="Alfred D. Hughes Unit">Hughes</a></li>

<li><a href="O.L._Luther_Unit" title="O.L. Luther Unit">Luther</a></li>

<li><a href="Patrick_O'Daniel_Unit" title="Patrick O'Daniel Unit">O'Daniel</a>♀</li>

<li><a href="Dr._Lane_Murray_Unit" title="Dr. Lane Murray Unit">Murray</a>♀</li>

<li><a href="French_M._Robertson_Unit" title="French M. Robertson Unit">Robertson</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Private</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Bridgeport_Unit" title="Bridgeport Unit">Bridgeport</a></li>

<li><a href="Cleveland_Unit" title="Cleveland Unit">Cleveland</a></li>

<li><a href="Diboll_Unit" title="Diboll Unit">Diboll</a></li>

<li><a href="Estes_Unit" title="Estes Unit">Estes</a></li>

<li><a href="Coleman_Unit" title="Coleman Unit">Coleman</a>♀ (formerly Lockhart)</li>

<li><a href="Billy_Moore_Unit" title="Billy Moore Unit">B. Moore</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Central_Unit" title="Central Unit">Central</a></li>

<li><a href="Retrieve_Unit" title="Retrieve Unit">Retrieve</a> (later Wayne Scott)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#C0C0C0;">State jail units</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Region II</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Hutchins_State_Jail" title="Hutchins State Jail">Hutchins</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Region III</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Dempsie_Henley_State_Jail" title="Dempsie Henley State Jail">Henley</a>♀</li>

<li><a href="Joe_Kegans_State_Jail" title="Joe Kegans State Jail">Kegans</a></li>

<li><a href="Pam_Lychner_State_Jail" title="Pam Lychner State Jail">Lychner</a></li>

<li><a href="Lucile_Plane_State_Jail" title="Lucile Plane State Jail">Plane</a>♀</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Region IV</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li>Dominguez</li>

<li>Lopez</li>

<li><a href="Rogelio_Sanchez_State_Jail" title="Rogelio Sanchez State Jail">Sanchez</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Region V</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li>Formby</li>

<li>Wheeler</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Region VI</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li>Travis County</li>

<li><a href="Linda_Woodman_State_Jail" title="Linda Woodman State Jail">Woodman</a>♀</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Private</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Bartlett_State_Jail" title="Bartlett State Jail">Bartlett</a></li>

<li><a href="Bradshaw_State_Jail" title="Bradshaw State Jail">Bradshaw</a></li>

<li><a href="Dawson_State_Jail" title="Dawson State Jail">Dawson</a>♂♀ (closed 2013)</li>

<li><a href="Lindsey_State_Jail" title="Lindsey State Jail">Lindsey</a></li>

<li><a href="Willacy_County_State_Jail" title="Willacy County State Jail">Willacy County</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#C0C0C0;">Transfer units</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Region I</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li>Goodman</li>

<li><a href="Joe_F._Gurney_Transfer_Facility" title="Joe F. Gurney Transfer Facility">Gurney</a></li>

<li><a href="C._A._Holliday_Transfer_Facility" title="C. A. Holliday Transfer Facility">Holliday</a></li></ul>

<ul><li>C. Moore</li></ul>

<ul><li>Cotulla</li>

<li>Fort Stockton</li>

<li><a href="Garza_East_Unit" title="Garza East Unit">Garza East</a> (closed 2020)</li>

<li><a href="Garza_West_Unit" title="Garza West Unit">Garza West</a></li></ul>

<ul><li>Tulia</li>

<ul><li>Marlin</li>

<li>Middleton</li>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#C0C0C0;">Psychiatric units</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Region_III10" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Region III</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li> (formerly Jester IV)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background:#C0C0C0;"><div>Above facilities are male-only unless noted by ♀(female-only) or ♂♀ (cogender)</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

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