By Jason Renard Walker

Former TDCJ Program Supervisor VI John Morris Hastings and his wife, Ashley Lauren Hastings, were arrested and charged in Huntsville Texas, on June 9 2025 with 15 counts of: forgery, counterfeiting private documents, fraud, and identity info theft over $25,000, but less than $100,000 per each of those 13 counts. 

Mr Hastings was employed at the Wynn unit as a reentry staffer, whose department gives him access to the names and social security numbers of TDCJ inmates, and addresses where they plan to be released or paroled to. His wife was employed with Securus Technologies, a prison profiteer firm that contracts its telephone and electronic tablet services to state prisons across the U.S. In this job capacity she had unlimited access to the credit card, personal information and copies of drivers licenses of anyone using the service to communicate with a prisoner in the U.S. 

These arrests don’t surprise me at all because for the past two years I’ve been complaining about having my securus account hacked. Most notably according to a source I had look me up on verify.com I’ve purchased a house with equity, cars in bulk to be sold to car lots and taken out various large business loans. I’ve tried to get a credit report to verify this information several times but failed. 

I recommend that all prisoners and citizens that use Securus Technologies check your credit reports and monthly statements to insure that no unusual usage exists. Even a dime is a lot if one is taken from hundreds of thousands of people. 

Jason Renard Walker 1532092 

Powledge unit 

PO Box 660400 

Dallas, Tx 75266

Jason Renard Walker is a prison journalist who has been publishing articles and essays in various print and online media outlets since 2016. You can view his work at www.jasonsprisonjournal.com Also see his paperback book (available on amazon.com) ‘Reports From Within The Belly Of The Beast: Torture And Injustice Inside Texas Department Of Criminal Justice’