C. A. Holliday Transfer Facility

Holliday is along Interstate 45 and .5 miles (0.80 km) north of Texas State Highway 30.

Watkins sent many letters to Governor of Texas Ann Richards, asking her to name a prison after Holliday.

[5] Holliday, an industrial-scale complex, has sheet metal siding and low sloping roofs.

Robert Perkinson, author of Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire, said that the "hastily-constructed" transfer unit "looks like an assemblage of discount tire outlets," and that the only features that indicate that it is a prison is the razor wire and guard towers.

Jim Willett, a Huntsville resident and a former warden, said that Holliday is "a giant tin barn that serves as Texas's prison purgatory, the place you go between jail and the real thing.