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Transgender Prisoner Saves Inmate from Getting Killed, is Assaulted Themself

Transgender Prisoner Saves Inmate from Getting Killed, is Assaulted Themself

By Jason Renard Walker, Minister of Labor, New Afrikan Black Panther Party Allred Unit prisoner John Leland Dillon was beaten badly and nearly killed on December 13, 2019, during his stay in the prison’s close custody wing. Witnesses state that the assault took place for over thirty minutes, and followed a threat from his cellmate that he would kill him if placed in the same cell.This same comment was made to Sgt. Byrd just days before. Despite the threats, Sgt….

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Conditions at the Allred Unit Prison are driving some inmates insane, others homicidal or suicidal

Conditions at the Allred Unit Prison are driving some inmates insane, others homicidal or suicidal

Despite a rise in murders at the Allred Unit’s close custody building this year, overall conditions haven’t gotten better; they are getting worse. Around Sept. 25, 2019, in Allred’s close custody building, 31-year-old Delandro Coridro Hamilton was found “unresponsive” in his bunk by staff during the 5:30 a.m. bed book count. His cellmate was on the recreation yard during the discovery. A white female nurse, who chose to remain anonymous, suggests that Hamilton was killed and had been dead for…

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Chill Factor: The Unjust Response to Prisoner Deaths at the Allred Unit

Chill Factor: The Unjust Response to Prisoner Deaths at the Allred Unit

By Jason Renard Walker, Minister of Labor, NABPP What’s there to hide? From the beginning of my arrival at the Allred Unit in Iowa Park, Texas, it became obvious that this prison was no different than any other I’ve been to, given the overt racism and slave-like treatment. But as the days passed, I soon learned that, unlike many other prisons, prisoner deaths and subsequent cover-ups was the norm. So normal that investigators (OGI) only spoke with prisoners who saw…

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Retaliation 101: Requesting Access to Respite Areas at Allred Unit is a Big No No

Retaliation 101: Requesting Access to Respite Areas at Allred Unit is a Big No No

Note: the first draft of this essay was censored by the Allred Unit mailroom, leading Jason to record an audio version that wasbroadcast by Kite Line Radio. Jason was then able to send out a written version of the essay, which is below. “I don’t think prisoners are treated like humans in this state. If there was air conditioning in that prison, my dad would be alive, out of jail, and rebuilding his life right now.” –  Ashley Frantom on her father’s…

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The Raw Truth about Dying in a Remote Texas Prison: An Official Cover-up

The Raw Truth about Dying in a Remote Texas Prison: An Official Cover-up

By Jason Renard Walker, a Texas prison writer As the year 2016 comes to a close, I am constantly reminded about a prisoner, 31-year-old Alton Rogers, a black male, who was found unresponsive and covered in bed sores in his cell on January 18, 2016. He died at the Northwest Texas Hospital here in Amarillo, Texas on January 19. He’s the third prisoner in the past three years, to die as a direct and proximate result of medical neglect, deliberate…

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Heat-related conditions at the Allred Unit are cruel, unusual and a purveyance of unwritten policies

Heat-related conditions at the Allred Unit are cruel, unusual and a purveyance of unwritten policies

As the extreme summer heat in Texas nears, Texans are preparing by purchasing summerwear, drinks and trinkets designed to combat the humidity and heat. In contrast, officials at the Allred Unit in Iowa Park, Teas, haven’t prepared to protect prisoners from heat-related injuries, like strokes, dehydration and exhaustion, despite temperatures here reaching the high 100°s. But what they have done is made an effort to relieve themselves of civil liability from foreseen prisoner heat strokes and other illnesses. I’ve written…

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Prisoner found half-dead in bloodbath: Back to TDCJ’s houses of horror and staged gladiator fights

Prisoner found half-dead in bloodbath: Back to TDCJ’s houses of horror and staged gladiator fights

As prison guards had the door of D-Pod Cell 203 opened, the body of a prisoner, who appeared to be Hispanic or white, fell over by the entrance; a large pool of blood ran out of the door, dripping down to the first tier. It was like a scene directly out of a scary movie. Lying in his own blood bath while his cellmate slept, this prisoner, bound to the confines of isolation, tried to remove himself from this reality…

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Grey Suit Protection: Ellis Unit guards Admit Assaulting Prisoners, But Aren’t Held Accountable

Grey Suit Protection: Ellis Unit guards Admit Assaulting Prisoners, But Aren’t Held Accountable

On 1-6-19 at 12:27 AM officer Barnett (white female) and another Latina female and white officer sprayed a heavy dose of chemical gas in the vents and on the cell block to choke us out. They turned the industrial fan on, kept all the windows closed and laughed as it circulated, choking everyone. They all wore gas masks then closed my solid security door connected to my cell door so that I was trapped in the gas and as it…

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It is in the spirit of our ancestors I move forward and keep fighting

It is in the spirit of our ancestors I move forward and keep fighting

As white fists swung at me and dirty cheap boots kicked me, Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Fred Hampton, Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser and many other influential Black figures flashed across my mind. It was like a revelation or a spiritual awakening advising me that this racially motivated attack by white cowards, as Black cowards shielded witnesses from seeing the volley of punches thrown, is how agents of repression respond to resistance. Our appetite to put our minds, bodies…

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Telford Unit Exposed: Investigation Reveals Prison Employees Falsified Records

Telford Unit Exposed: Investigation Reveals Prison Employees Falsified Records

Former Telford Unit employee Sheila Forte was recently fired for her role in falsifying records, connected to a false disciplinary case I received on Sept 13 2018. Forte held the job title Counsel Substitute III, which is supposed to act as a prisoner’s advocate during disciplinary hearings. But evidence reveals that Forte deliberately conspired with other officials by failing to notify me (and possibly others) that we had pending major disciplinary cases. Then falsified records by claiming that I refused to…

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