[3] It opened in September 1983[2] and is named after Wallace Pack, warden of Ellis Unit who was drowned in self-defence in 1981.

[5] In 2014 Jeff Edwards, an Austin civil rights lawyer, filed a lawsuit against the TDCJ on behalf of Pack Unit prisoners.

The four plaintiffs have disabilities and medical conditions amplified by extreme heat.

They compared cell blocks to ovens and argued that tables are too hot to touch.

In June 2016 a federal judge ruled that the prison must provide safe drinking water.