• The Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery is the main prison cemetery in Texas, located in Huntsville and operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice...
  • The cemetery was badly maintained and had no written records until the 1970s. In 1962, the assistant warden for the Walls Unit, Captain Joe Byrd, undertook a...
  • The Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery is open to the public and is one of the most well maintained cemeteries that you'll find anywhere.
  • The Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery is open to the public and is one of the most well maintained cemeteries that you'll find anywhere.
  • It was then that the assistant warden of the Huntsville Unit, Captain Joe Byrd, cleaned up the grounds with his crew and discovered 900 graves at the cemetery.
  • SAN MARCOS – The Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery, located in Huntsville, Texas, becomes home to the approximate 100 inmates who die in the Texas prison system...
  • Yes, there is a prison graveyard, the Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, TX. It has existed since the mid-1800s when the first prisoner was buried there.
  • In 1962, Captain Joe Byrd, assistant warden at the Huntsville Unit, took the initiative to clean up the cemetery grounds.
  • r/MorbidReality - The unclaimed prisoner cemetery (Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery) of the Texas Criminal Justice System. Over 3000 are unmarked with no record.