Joe F. Gurney Transfer Facility

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The Joe F. Gurney Transfer Facility or Joe F. Gurney Unit (ND) was a Texas Department of Criminal Justice men's Transfer Unit located in unincorporated Anderson County, Texas. The unit is along Farm to Market Road 2054, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Tennessee Colony. The unit, on 20,518 acres (8,303 ha) of land, is co-located with the Beto (directly across the road), Coffield, Michael and Powledge prison. The unit closed temporarily in December 2020.

It is named for Sergeant Joe F. Gurney. While working at Beto, Sergeant Gurney was killed when his horse fell and rolled over him.

Gallery

1977 United States Geological Survey map of the land which now houses the Gurney Unit

Prison units

Region I	Byrd Ellis Estelle (formerly Ellis II) Ferguson Goree Huntsville Lewis Polunsky (formerly Terrell) Wainwright (formerly Eastham) Wynne
Region II	Beto Boyd Coffield Hodge Michael Powledge Telford
Region III	Clemens Hightower Jester III Memorial (formerly Darrington) Ramsey Stiles Stringfellow Terrell (formerly Ramsey III) Vance
Region IV	Briscoe Connally Lynaugh McConnell Stevenson Torres
Region V	Allred Clements Dalhart Daniel Jordan Neal Roach Rudd Smith Wallace
Region VI	Crain♀ Hilltop♀ Hobby♀ Hughes Luther Mountain View♀ Murray♀ Pack Robertson
Private	Bridgeport Cleveland Diboll Estes Kyle Lockhart♀ B. Moore
Former units	Central Retrieve (later Wayne Scott)

State jail units

Region II	Cole Hutchins
Region III	Gist Henley♀ Kegans Lychner Plane♀
Region IV	Dominguez Lopez Ney Sanchez
Region V	Formby Wheeler
Region VI	Travis County Woodman♀
Private	Bartlett (closed 2017) Bradshaw (closed 2020) Dawson♂♀ (closed 2013) Lindsey Willacy County

Transfer units

Region I	Goodman Gurney Holliday
Region II	C. Moore
Region IV	Cotulla Fort Stockton Garza East (closed 2020) Garza West
Region V	Tulia Ware
Region VI	Marlin Middleton San Saba

Psychiatric units

Region III	Wayne Scott (formerly Jester IV)

Above facilities are male-only unless noted by ♀(female-only) or ♂♀ (cogender)

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