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TDCJ DIGITAL MAIL RULE UPDATE

TDCJ DIGITAL MAIL RULE UPDATE

BY Jason Renard Walker In July 2023 the Texas Department Of Criminal Justice created a rule, preventing organizations, businesses and the public from sending mail directly to Texas prisoners. By September 6 2023 it would be effective on all TDCJ units. The rationale for this policy was to curb the amount of contraband entering Texas prisons, but the most common contraband found in Texas prisons(methamphetamines, cellphones, weapons) has no logical way to be hidden in incoming mail from the public….

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Former High Media Profile ‘Prison Sex Slave’ Back In Texas Prison, After Losing Everything – Including His Mind

Former High Media Profile ‘Prison Sex Slave’ Back In Texas Prison, After Losing Everything – Including His Mind

By Jason Renard Walker The ACLU’s National Prison Project filed the suit in 2002 and their media team released the lawsuit filings to the Associated press. It was picked up by every major newspaper across the country and made the front page. Roderick Keith Johnson explained in detail the horrors of belonging to a prison gang, but not in the sense of being a member under pressure to further the gang’s criminal activities. More like a low cost prison sex…

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Increased Violence Prompts State Wide Prison Lockdown: The Texas Department Of Criminal Justice In Words And Prophecy

Increased Violence Prompts State Wide Prison Lockdown: The Texas Department Of Criminal Justice In Words And Prophecy

By Jason Renard Walker Uncontrollable violence and drug smuggling within the Texas Department Of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) compelled officials to launch a statewide prison lockdown, on the early morning of September 6 2023. Prisoners where I am housed woke up hungry and disappointed. The lockdown occurred on our scheduled commissary day and breakfast sacks wasn’t fed until after 12:00pm. The normal time is 4:00am. TDCJ officials suggest that the violence increasing throughout the system is linked to the amount of…

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A poem by Jason Renard Walker

A poem by Jason Renard Walker

How I lived, what I ate And what I wore is not who I am. My skin is my sin, Which was dealt to me Like a shantytown hustler’s sleight-of-hand win. I ask for my freedom But I’m told no such thing exists. I’m told I’m not human, I’m not worthy and I am not a man. If I’m am not a man and you are, Why do I slave and thrive above your soil? Isn’t a man one who…

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BLOODY BEAUMONT: TEXAS’S MOST MURDEROUS FEDERAL PENITENTIARY OVERACHIEVES, LIVING UP TO ITS NAME 

BLOODY BEAUMONT: TEXAS’S MOST MURDEROUS FEDERAL PENITENTIARY OVERACHIEVES, LIVING UP TO ITS NAME 

By Jason Renard Walker “When you look at the policies and goals of the Security Management Unit, it blows my mind that there was [even] one homicide” – Jack Donson, corrections consultant and former FBOP official on violence at USP Thompson.  Edgar Garcia and Mark Snarr couldn’t have scripted the murder of Gabriel Rhone any better. Given that each of them were in single cells and were only allowed out after a thorough strip search and handcuffing, such a feat…

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New TDCJ Digital Mail Center Further Separates Prisoners From Their Loved Ones, While Promoting Violence And Staff Corruption

New TDCJ Digital Mail Center Further Separates Prisoners From Their Loved Ones, While Promoting Violence And Staff Corruption

By Jason Renard Walker Starting July 17 2023 general mail from the public to Texas prisoners will have to be sent to their new digital mail processing center. From there it will be read,scanned and digitally sent to the prisoners securus tablet within three business days. There is no limit on the amount of mail that can be sent to prisoners through this route. Any sender that wishes to have their own photos,greeting cards and mail sent back to them…

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Unnatural Cause: Why Some Murders in Texas Prisons Might Be Framed as Suicides and Natural Causes

Unnatural Cause: Why Some Murders in Texas Prisons Might Be Framed as Suicides and Natural Causes

By Jason Renard Walker  In the year 2022 alone, the Offices of Inspectors General (OIG) reported that approximately 19 prisoners died while serving time at the Mark Stiles maximum security unit in Beaumont Texas. The cause of death for 5 of the deceased was listed as murder, suicides,methamphetamine overdose and unknown. The other 14 were supposed natural causes,most notably via coronary artery disease and cardiac arrest.  Nelson Adjimiro Collazo (cardiac arrest), Lewis Lyles (cardiac arrest) and Brian Gilley (accidental death)…

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Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Prison-Assisted Death Matches

Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Prison-Assisted Death Matches

By Jason Renard Walker #1532092 Wayne Scott Unit 4 Jester Road Richmond, TX 77406 The thought of being locked inside a small two-man cell to defend yourself against a homemade knife-wielding maniac should be a scary one. Yet one’s fear, or lack thereof, can actually determine who walks out alive, or is the least butchered. Such occurrences become so common that prisoners normally fear missing a commissary spend more than they fear encounters with a death match. During my more-than-14-year…

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The Penitentiary Picassos: Guard-Instigated Gang and Race Wars in Texas Prisons

The Penitentiary Picassos: Guard-Instigated Gang and Race Wars in Texas Prisons

“Approximately 28% of the [FBI’s domestic covert action] efforts were designed to weaken groups by setting members against each other or to separate groups which might otherwise be allies and convert them into mutual enemies. The techniques used included… encouraging hostility up to and including gang warfare between rival groups…” According to penologists and pro-prison propagandists, the most common themes in U.S. prisons are gang violence and race wars. The jockeying for position of drug sales and territory. The inevitable…

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Life on the Island: Connally Unit Guards Use Unsanitary Showers as Respite Areas

Life on the Island: Connally Unit Guards Use Unsanitary Showers as Respite Areas

Life on the Island: Connally Unit guards use unsanitary showers as respite areas By Jason Renard Walker, 7 August 2022 Administrative staff and ranking guards at the Connally Unit are allowing guards to use a dark unsanitary shower as a respite area for medium custody prisoners housing in 8 Building’s J-Pod, commonly known as “the island”. On August 6 2022, during 1st shift, a Hispanic-looking male guard approached me and my cellmate. We were told the respite area is a…

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