[1] The unit is located along Farm to Market Road 3328, 6 miles (10 kilometers) south of Tennessee Colony.

[3] In 2008 Perryn Keys of the Beaumont Enterprise said that Beto "has been described as a gladiator’s playground — a hardcore joint, even as prisons go.

"[4] That year, Ricardo Ainslie, an author and a professor in the educational psychology department of the University of Texas, said that when he toured Beto with the warden, he was "scared (expletive).

"[5] In 2014 Curtis Garland, Jr., a prisoner from Dallas who began a 12-year sentence for family violence in 2012, died of an asthma attack.

After guards noticed smoke coming from his cell during a routine security check, they extinguished the fire and called EMS.