Program lets women offenders bond with their babies March 7, 2007 Galveston County Daily News, March 7, 2007 TEXAS CITY - Women don't go to prison to bond with their babies. But that's what can happen at the Sheltered Housing Unit at the Carole Young Medical Facility in Texas City. The minimum-security unit has helped female offenders with medical needs since 1996. It serves both state jail and Texas Department of Criminal Justice offenders. The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston provides the medical care. Kathi Simpson, nurse manager at the facility since 2003, said the total outpatient capacity is 306 but approximately 100 of those are assigned workers - inmates who are healthy but who are assigned to jobs at the facility, such as doing laundry, cutting grass and cooking food. These inmates have a separate dormitory, she noted. « Back | The Newsroom »