Wayne Scott Unit


The Wayne Scott Unit is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison farm located in unincorporated Brazoria County, Texas. The unit, southwest of Houston, is along County Road 290, south of Angleton. Scott, which was established in September 1919, has about of land.

History

The prison was formerly known as the Retrieve Unit. The prison opened on the grounds of the former Retrieve Plantation, which opened in 1839.
In 1935 Retrieve housed White prisoners. In 1963, before racial desegregation occurred, the facility housed second offenders, habitual criminals, and African Americans over the age of 25. A post office in the nearby community of Snipe served the prison farm from 1921 to 1949.
In September 2018, some 45 boxes of unclaimed bananas were donated to the Scott Unit. and the boxes were found to contain 540 packages of cocaine, which at the time held a street value of US$17,820,000.