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Their Crimes, Our Punishment: TDCJ’s State-Wide Deadly Use of Force Cover-Ups

Their Crimes, Our Punishment: TDCJ’s State-Wide Deadly Use of Force Cover-Ups

By Jason Renard Walker The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has a very secretive state-wide deadly use of force policy. This unwritten policy’s designs give guards the ability to beat and kill prisoners, while facing minimum, if any, punishment themselves. The Clements Unit in Amarillo, TX; Robertson Unit in Abilene, TX; Ferguson Unit in Midway, TX; Eastham Unit in Lovelady, TX; Telford Unit in New Boston, TX; Allred Unit in Iowa Park, TX; Ellis Unit in Huntsville, TX and Polunsky…

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Was the escape of Texas prisoner with ties to drug cartel an inside job?

Was the escape of Texas prisoner with ties to drug cartel an inside job?

By Jason Renard Walker Another Texas prisoner managed to escape a TDCJ transportation bus, while being escorted from Hughes Unit to a medical appointment, May 12 2022. According to TDCJ’s spokesman, Robert Hurst, this prisoner, who was in solitary confinement at the time, managed to board the bus with a weapon; break out of his full body arm/leg restraints; break through the door separating him and the drivers, who are armed with guns; stab one in the hand; take control…

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The Valentine’s Day Murder: Another Prison-Assisted Suicide in Texas

The Valentine’s Day Murder: Another Prison-Assisted Suicide in Texas

By Jason Renard Walker Since March of 2021, ten former Texas prisoners were reported to have died while incarcerated at the Alfred Hughes Unit, in Gatesville, Texas. According to custodial death reports, Carlos Martinez died April 1, 2022, from what witnesses say was a suicide by hanging, following a verbal altercation with guards who’d been interrogating Martinez about contraband cell phones. On April 14, 2022, Philip Henry Freeman was found hanging inside of a small holding cage, located right in…

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Black Texas prisoner gassed, brutalized in solitary confinement cell by white ranking guards; camera operator watches and remains silent

Black Texas prisoner gassed, brutalized in solitary confinement cell by white ranking guards; camera operator watches and remains silent

By Jason Renard Walker Seconds after having his cell gassed by Polunsky Unit’s Lieutenant Corbett, Marquis Kingbury #2303732, a black inmate, was nearly killed by Corbett, Sergeant Schwartz, and a team of racist white guards in riot gear, as they rushed into his solitary confinement cell with a large shield and riot baton on July 22 2021, between 1:25 pm and 1:49pm. I was Kingbury’s neighbor and a witness. It was the most senseless and brutalizing beating I’ve ever heard. After…

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Allred Unit guard gasses hung prisoner, ranking unit guard orders to leave him hanging

Allred Unit guard gasses hung prisoner, ranking unit guard orders to leave him hanging

By Jason Renard Walker Despite the seasonal deaths and murders at Allred Unit’s maximum security prison, just outside Wichita Falls, Texas; prison guards are still responding to these incidents as if no remedial training or reprimands were ever dished out to curtail wrongful deaths. Though, chances are, none were. After I arrived back to this unit following an 18-month hiatus and brief stays at four different units; in less than two weeks, two Hispanic prisoners in 4 Building’s F-Pod hung…

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ABUSIVE OVERSIGHT: SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS SHOW GUARDS’ ATTEMPT TO KILL BLACK AND BROWN PRISONER AT THE DISCRETION OF WHITE RANKING STAFF

ABUSIVE OVERSIGHT: SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS SHOW GUARDS’ ATTEMPT TO KILL BLACK AND BROWN PRISONER AT THE DISCRETION OF WHITE RANKING STAFF

By Jason Renard Walker, NABPP Minister of Labor Many citizens in society know little if anything about what actually goes on in an American prison. The little some do know usually portrays prisoners in a negative light. We can thank the mainstream media for falsely viewing prisons as places where violent predators spend their days: preying on the weak; lifting weights; watching movies and stabbing each other for no reason at all. Kinda like-how HBO laid out the prison environment…

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CORONAVIRUS CONTINUES TO SPREAD AT THE CLEMENTS UNIT BECAUSE NO QUARANTINE HAS BEEN INITIATED

CORONAVIRUS CONTINUES TO SPREAD AT THE CLEMENTS UNIT BECAUSE NO QUARANTINE HAS BEEN INITIATED

By Jason Renard Walker, NABPP Minister of Labor The Clements Unit was hastily put on a medical lockdown on April 8, 2020. From the outset, prisoners were told that the medical lockdown would be discontinued 14 days later. 46 days later, prisoners are still waiting for the 14 days to pass, so that hot meals, recreation, library books and so on can be distributed. Even visits to the infirmary have been put on hold. Short of death, sick call requests…

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MASSIVE COVID-19 TESTING CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED IN TEXAS PRISONS

MASSIVE COVID-19 TESTING CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED IN TEXAS PRISONS

By Jason Renard Walker, NABPP Minister of Labor Clements Unit prisoners in 3 Buildings’ close custody wings were awakened in the early morning of May 16, 2020, by the loud sounds of ranking guards telling them to get dressed and step out of their cells. Normally such mass invasions by staff mean cell searches and shakedowns. To our surprise, no shakedowns would be conducted, though a wealth of “free world” men and women donning hazmat-like garments, clipboards, hand sanitizer and…

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QUARANTINING THE CLEMENTS UNIT WAY: MEDICAL LOCKDOWN IN WORDS, CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN DEEDS

QUARANTINING THE CLEMENTS UNIT WAY: MEDICAL LOCKDOWN IN WORDS, CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN DEEDS

By Jason Renard Walker, NABPP Minister of Labor In the April 2020 Prison Legal News cover story by Michael D. Cohen, M.D. titled: Protect Yourself and Your Facility From COVID-19. He explained what little is known about the Coronavirus and what prisoners can do to protect themselves and the areas they live and congregate in. Given that prisoners are already limited, resource wise, information of this magnitude is critical in situations of a pandemic proportion. Guards and medical staff have…

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THE EXPLOITATION AND MANIPULATION OF INFORMATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

THE EXPLOITATION AND MANIPULATION OF INFORMATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

By Jason Renard Walker, NABPP Minister of Labor  “I ain’t signing no bitch ass heat restriction paper! It’s cold in this bitch, niggas dying back here, get the fuck on.” – frustrated black man tells guard after being asked to falsely sign that he got proper education on extreme heat conditions,amidst the death of a prisoner. After a two year hiatus from the Clements unit, the original scene of crime and punishment, I’m back. Surprisingly, nothing has changed! Guards,nurses and…

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