UMC provides health services to approximately 30,000 patients in 27 correctional facilities at twenty-three geographical locations as a partnership with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.       They come and tell you that you are on the medical chain around 12 pm and give you the option of refusing. At 2:30 am they come and get you. Have to strip down to your boxers only. No shirt, pants, no socks. Just your shower shoes and make you walk down the hallway to a holding cell. Wait shivering from cold until around 5:30 am when the chain bus arrives. Then the guards make you strip completely naked, sit on a metal detector, and hand you some really dirty clothes. Then stand in line to be hand cuffed to another inmate, then marched outside and locked into a crowded bus. Then, if not too many stops at other units to pick up more inmates, several hours later you arrive at the Monford Unit.

Monford basically does the clinic work. It is a small hospital with doctors, MRIs, etc. that perform many medical procedures. If you need major surgery, you will then be transported to UMC. Once UMC releases you, you will then return to Monford Unit and you will stay here if you need additional recovery time. You will then be scheduled back to your Unit.