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This issue contains portraits of members of the Board of Corrections, executive staff, department heads and wardens and some pictures and information about the system. It includes an article: Growing pains : an analysis of some major problems, which discusses facilities. It includes infomation about, and pictures of the rodeo.
The Texas Prison Rodeo began in 1931 and ended in 1986. It was an annual event, generally held every Sunday in October, for inmates in the Texas Prison System, and was held in a stadium in Huntsville, Texas. The stadium was located at the Huntsville Unit and the rodeo included bareback bronc riding, saddle bronc riding, wild Brahma bull riding, calf roping, goat roping, calf belling, bull dogging, the mad scramble and wild cow milking. Some crowds exceeded 100,000.
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