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Baker Funeral Home

118 West Texas Street

Brazoria, TX 77422

(979) 798-2128

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1211 South Brooks Street

Brazoria, TX 77422

(979) 798-9113

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Investigators Identify Inmate Suspected in Prison Guard's Death - Texas Tribune

Dallas County of aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 14, according to the agency.When he was 17, Compton was in the youthful offender program at the Clemens Unit in Brazoria County, according to a 2012 Austin American-Statesman article.He told the Statesman he was pursuing a job in the computer industry and discussed being placed in solitary confinement for a week after fighting."I'm not going back there," he said in 2012. "It was pretty hot."Following the attack on Johnson, Compton was transferred from the Robertson Unit, a maximum security, all-male facility, to "an undisclosed maximum-security TDCJ unit," according to the agency.Investigators with the department's inspector general's office are continuing to gather evidence in Johnson's death, and plan to eventually present their findings to the Jones County district attorney's office. The office is investigating the incident as a homicide.Johnson's death comes almost exactly a year after rookie prison guard Timothy Davison, 47, was beaten to death by an inmate inside the Barry B. Telford Unit in New Boston in northeastern Texas.Davison was escorting Billy Joel Tracy, 37, on the morning of July 15 when the handcuffed inmate freed one hand from his restraints and began beating the officer. After pulling him to the ground, Tracy began beating Davison with a two-foot "pry bar" tool that guards carry to unlock the small meal tray openings in cell doors.In 2007, correctional officer Susan Canfield, 59, was killed during an escape attempt at the Wynne Unit in Huntsville.Johnson's death raises questions, including whether she was alone and working without backup, said Lance Lowry, president of the state's correctional employees union. Staffing, which TDCJ has struggled to maintain, has played a role in attacks on correctional officers, he said.State leaders' request for budget cuts across state agencies won't help, the union president said."The sta...

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Investigators Identify Inmate Suspected in Prison Guard's Death - Texas Tribune

Dallas County of aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 14, according to the agency.When he was 17, Compton was in the youthful offender program at the Clemens Unit in Brazoria County, according to a 2012 Austin American-Statesman article.He told the Statesman he was pursuing a job in the computer industry and discussed being placed in solitary confinement for a week after fighting."I'm not going back there," he said in 2012. "It was pretty hot."Following the attack on Johnson, Compton was transferred from the Robertson Unit, a maximum security, all-male facility, to "an undisclosed maximum-security TDCJ unit," according to the agency.Investigators with the department's inspector general's office are continuing to gather evidence in Johnson's death, and plan to eventually present their findings to the Jones County district attorney's office. The office is investigating the incident as a homicide.Johnson's death comes almost exactly a year after rookie prison guard Timothy Davison, 47, was beaten to death by an inmate inside the Barry B. Telford Unit in New Boston in northeastern Texas.Davison was escorting Billy Joel Tracy, 37, on the morning of July 15 when the handcuffed inmate freed one hand from his restraints and began beating the officer. After pulling him to the ground, Tracy began beating Davison with a two-foot "pry bar" tool that guards carry to unlock the small meal tray openings in cell doors.In 2007, correctional officer Susan Canfield, 59, was killed during an escape attempt at the Wynne Unit in Huntsville.Johnson's death raises questions, including whether she was alone and working without backup, said Lance Lowry, president of the state's correctional employees union. Staffing, which TDCJ has struggled to maintain, has played a role in attacks on correctional officers, he said.State leaders' request for budget cuts across state agencies won't help, the union president said."The sta...