**Senior Warden:**  
Garrett Simmons  
**Regional Director:**  
Michael Britt, [Region I](https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/unit_directory/reg1.html)  
**Deputy Division Director:**  
Lonnie "L.E." Townsend  
**Division Director:**  
Eric Guerrero  
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**Unit Full Name:** Wallace Pack Unit  
**Date Unit Established or On Line:** September 1983  
**Total Employees:** 334  
**Security Employees:** 244  
**Non-Security Employees:** 56  
**Windham Education Employees:** 7  
**Contract Medical and Mental Health Employees:**Medical = 25; Mental Health = 2  
**Inmate Gender:** Male  
**Capacity:** 1,426  
**Custody Levels Housed:** G1-G3, Security Detention, Outside Trusty  
**Approximate Acreage:** 7,002 (Co-located with Luther)  
**Agricultural Operations:** Pack and Luther work in cooperation: Cow/Calf Operation, Edible and Field Crops, Farm Shop, Swine Finishing Operation, Grain Storage, and Buffalo Ranch (11,002 acres).  
**Manufacturing and Logistics Op.:** Surplus Warehouse  
**Facility Operations:** Unit Maintenance  
**Additional Operations:** Security Horses, Security Pack Canines, Scent-Specific Canines  
**Medical Capabilities:** Ambulatory medical, dental, and mental health services with 60 wheelchair accommodated cells and 12-bed infirmary. Medical care available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Digital Medical Services (DMS), electronic specialty clinics, and chronic care clinics available. Type I Geriatric Facility. All services on a single level, including assisted disability services (ADS) showers and CPAP accommodating housing. Managed by UTMB.  
**Special Treatment Programs:** Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) Recovery Program; Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP); Sex Offender Education Program (SOEP)  
**Educational Programs:** Literacy (Adult Basic Education/GED), CHANGES/Pre-Release, Cognitive Intervention; Career and Technology Programs: Construction Carpentry; Hospitality and Tourism  
**Additional Programs/Services:** Faith-Based Dormitory, Administrative Segregation Protective Custody Video Initiative, Adult Education Program (upon availability), Life Decisions Program, Peer Education, Reentry Planning, Chaplaincy Services, Community Tours, GO KIDS Initiative  
**Community Work Projects:** Services provided to city agencies and Texas Parks and Wildlife.  
**Volunteer Initiatives:** Literacy/Education, Employment/Job Skills, Substance Abuse Education, Support Groups, Victims Awareness, Religious/Faith-Based Studies and Activities

Wallace Pack Unit, usually referred to as 'Pack Unit', is a medium security prison located just outside the city limits of Navasota Texas, part of Grimes County.  Pack Unit is an all male facility that houses approximately 1,157 offenders in the main unit, and an additional 321 inmates in the Trusty Camp.  The facility shares over 7,000 acres with the Luther Unit.  Offenders at Pack Unit can be G1, G2, or G3 security levels and range in age from 22 to 85 years old.  The average term an inmate is incarcerated at Pack Unit is for nine years.  
Pack Unit is comprised of 23 housing units and a segregation unit.  The facility is named after Wallace Pack, a former Warden of Ellis Unit who was brutally drowned in a drainage ditch by a prisoner in 1981.  
Pack Unit provides off site medical, mental health, and dental services to offenders, and has a twelve bed infirmary, a wheelchair accessible unit, and provides many services to geriatric inmates.  Educational classes are provided in adult basic education and literacy.  Additionally inmates at Pack Unit are provided the opportunity to earn a GED during their incarceration.  Select inmates can provide a supervised labor force for the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife, and to local government agencies.  Offenders can also learn a new trade in vocational programs that teach carpentry and hospitality/tourism.  Inmates may be assigned work detail in facility maintenance, in a surplus warehouse, in farming edible crops, in a cow/calf operation, grain storage, and in pork production.  Pack Unit also operates and employs inmates on a buffalo ranch, and in caring for security horses and canines.

Karmello Anthony’s new home The Wallace Pack Unit (Pack (P1)) (source TDCJ.texas.gov)