The John B. Connally Unit is a maximum-security prison for males located in unincorporated Karnes County, Texas, United States. It is located on Farm to Market Road 632, just east of U.S. Highway 181 south of the city of Kenedy, and southeast of San Antonio. The prison, with about of space, is operated by the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, administered as within Region IV.

Notable inmates

  • The Texas Seven, who escaped in December 2000, and caused the death of Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins during a robbery.
  • Randy Ethan Halprin
  • Larry James Harper (committed suicide while on the run)
  • Patrick Henry Murphy, Jr.
  • Donald Keith Newbury (executed February 2, 2015)
  • George Rivas (ringleader, executed February 29, 2012)
  • Michael Anthony Rodriguez (declined appeals beyond mandatory, executed August 14, 2008)
  • Carlton Dotson, former Baylor Bears basketball player who pleaded guilty to the murder of Patrick Dennehy, his teammate
  • Bernie Tiede, mortician and convicted murderer who was the subject of the 2011 film Bernie
  • Raymond Ayala, Houston, Texas rapper better known as “Lil Bing”, convicted murder and rapper
  • Dennis Wayne Hope
  • Earl David Worden, first amendment auditor who was convicted of sexual assault of a child in 2022.
  • Taymor Travon McIntyre, better known by his stage name "Tay-K", convicted murderer and former rapper
  • Francisco Oropeza, perpetrator of the 2023 Cleveland, Texas shooting.

References

  • Connally Unit