Vernon is home to the North Texas State Hospital, Texas' only maximum security mental health facility. It is the only place in Texas where violent accused criminals get treatment designed to ...

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VERNON, Texas – The North Texas State Hospital is located in Vernon, Texas just 6 miles from the Texas-Oklahoma border. Its Vernon campus houses over 400 of the state’s most violent accused ...

The man who escaped a North Texas state hospital and prompted a 2-week manhunt has been captured, police say. Alexander Ervin, 29, was taken into custody shortly after 6:30 p.m. Sunday by Austin ...

Staff at the North Texas State Hospital in Vernon, near the Oklahoma border and 190 miles northwest of Dallas, advised police that Alexander Scott Ervin, 29, was found missing from the hospital ...

Alexander Ervin, 29, of Austin, escaped the North Texas State Hospital in Vernon, near the Oklahoma-Texas border on June 26. He was acquitted in the 2013 murder of his father by reason of insanity.

VERNON, Texas — A man who was acquitted in his father’s death escaped from the North Texas State Hospital on June 26 and is still on the run. Hospital security footage shows 29-year-old ...