Editing Marlin, Texas (section)

===State government===
The [[Texas Department of Criminal Justice]] (TDCJ) operates the Marlin Unit, a transfer facility for men, in the City of Marlin. The unit opened in June 1992 and was transferred to the [[Texas Youth Commission]] (TYC) in May 1995.<ref name="TDCJMarlin">"[http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/unitdirectory/n1.htm Marlin Unit] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725201337/http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/unitdirectory/n1.htm |date=2010-07-25 }}." [[Texas Department of Criminal Justice]]. Retrieved on September 22, 2010.</ref> When it was a part of TYC, the facility, named the Marlin Orientation and Assessment Unit,<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20011110114953/http://www.tyc.state.tx.us/programs/facility_address.html Facility Address List]." Texas Youth Commission. November 10, 2001. Retrieved on June 24, 2010.</ref> served as the place of orientation for children of both sexes being committed into TYC from the facility's opening in 1995 to its transfer out of TYC in 2007.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20011110110815/http://www.tyc.state.tx.us/about/how_movethru.html How Offenders Move Through TYC]." [[Texas Youth Commission]]. November 10, 2001. Retrieved on June 24, 2010.</ref> In September 2007 the facility was transferred back to the TDCJ.<ref name="TDCJMarlin"/> The 2007 conversions of the Marlin unit, to house 600 adult prisoners, had the possibility of improving the economy of Marlin. Around that time Texas officials were examining the possibility of converting a former [[Veterans Administration]] medical center in Marlin into a prison unit for psychiatric patients.<ref>Ward, Mike. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20070920143302/http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/06/05/5prizothers.html Texas could get new adult prisons without building them]" (). ''[[Austin American-Statesman]]''. Tuesday June 5, 2007. Retrieved on January 19, 2016.</ref>

The TDCJ also operates the [[William P. Hobby Unit]], a [[incarceration of women in the United States|prison for women]] located southwest of Marlin in [[unincorporated area|unincorporated]] Falls County and named for former [[Lieutenant Governor of Texas|Lieutenant Governor]] [[Bill Hobby]].<ref>"[http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/unitdirectory/hb.htm Hobby Unit] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725201237/http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/unitdirectory/hb.htm |date=2010-07-25 }}." [[Texas Department of Criminal Justice]]. Retrieved on September 22, 2010.</ref>