{"id":159708,"date":"2026-02-11T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/159708\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:22:41","slug":"texas-moves-inmates-into-renovated-dalby-unit-with-addiction-recovery-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/159708\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas moves inmates into renovated Dalby Unit with addiction recovery focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas has begun moving inmates into the Dalby Unit outside Post as the state prepares to house nearly 2,000 people with a focus on addiction recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The state purchased the unit for $110 million last year. Inmates started moving in last month, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice anticipates having about 1,900 inmates there by next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Garza County unit is fully air conditioned and will give inmates the opportunity to serve their sentences with education courses, substance use treatment and life skills programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The facility includes new \u201cIntro to Construction\u201d and \u201cRV Service Technician\u201d programs to give inmates workforce skills after they serve their sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The \u201cRecovery Housing Opportunity Program\u201d is aimed at breaking addiction and promoting healthier living, including special dorms aimed at maintaining sobriety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">TDCJ will hold a grand opening ceremony in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas has begun moving inmates into the Dalby Unit outside Post as the state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[65600,40745,319,168,170,169,4437,6740,8510,27,11886],"class_list":["post-159708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-dalby","tag-inmates","tag-kcbd","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-prison","tag-renovation","tag-state","tag-texas","tag-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}