Department of Criminal Justice building construction project files 1982-1995 bulk 1983-1992

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Department of Criminal Justice building construction project files, 1982-1995, bulk 1983-1992

Department of Criminal Justice building construction project files 1982-1995 bulk 1983-1992

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tslac/20166/20166-P.html

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice provides for the confinement, supervision, rehabilitation, and reintegration of the state’s convicted felons. The records consist of project files of construction of currently two prison units, documentation for more units will be added at a later date. The files document the construction of a large unit in the early 1980s - Ellis II (renamed the Estelle Unit in 1995), and a prototype unit built in the late1980s/early 1990s, the McConnell Unit (2250 bed unit). The records are dated 1982 to 1995, bulk 1983-1992. Types of records include proposals, bid documents, progress reports (daily, monthly), change orders, proposed and pending change orders, logs, transmittals, submission of transmittal forms, requests for information, punch lists, requests for equitable adjustments, test and balance reports, claims against contracts, contracts, photographs, meeting minutes, correspondence, memoranda, field orders, requests for time extensions, vouchers, schedules, cost estimates, pay estimates, a few detail drawings, inspection reports, project budget worksheets, and project manuals.

65 cubic ft. (so far)

eng,

Texas State Archives