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Racist guard files trumped-up felony assault charge, then bribes coworker to bear false witness

Racist guard files trumped-up felony assault charge, then bribes coworker to bear false witness

Within the past year, prison guards are turning up the way they retaliate for my published exposés and activism. From false charges to legal property theft and now physically unprovoked beatings. Most recently, on Nov. 23, 2018, around 3:10 a.m., I was snatched out of the chow hall by known racist officer Brandon K. Pollock, who attempted to wrestle me to the ground so he and officer Zachary H. Williford, another known racist, could beat me to a bloody pulp….

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Jason Walker attacked by prison clansmen for reporting their brutality

Jason Walker attacked by prison clansmen for reporting their brutality

I’m sad to report that I was attacked and beaten by clansman as Black guards watched. I sent out a report on this but left out info I felt would cause the message to be banned, delayed or thrown away. This attack was in response to my November Bay View piece that circulated around the prison like wildfire. Until I don’t have hands to write and eyes to see and a tongue to speak, I will continue to expose such…

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The anatomy of abusive prison guards: Telford Unit’s overt assault and punishment program

The anatomy of abusive prison guards: Telford Unit’s overt assault and punishment program

Introduction The incidents described in this piece give context to the historical and contemporary art of abuse, inflicted on prisoners from the torturous isolation chambers of the Eastern State Penitentiary during the 1820s to the 1971 Attica rebellion and beyond. The documentation of the past and present grieved events of prison-controlled torture blaze a paper trail that shows abuse by guards is a lot deeper than being inadvertent or isolated events. It is actually part of a poorly-designed program designed…

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Prison-assisted drug overdoses: Deadly K2 epidemic is spreading in Texas and many other state and federal prisons

Prison-assisted drug overdoses: Deadly K2 epidemic is spreading in Texas and many other state and federal prisons

The number of K2-related deaths in Texas prisons is mounting, year after year. Due to this drug being undetectable by prison drug-testing kits, it has become a favorite drug of choice for prisoners and prison officials who profit handsomely from smuggling it in. This has caused other common prison drugs, like cocaine, marijuana and meth, to be discarded by prisoners who now have the ability to get high without worrying about failing drug tests. Prison staff have also adjusted to…

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Censorship, Staff Negligence, and Extreme Heat at the Telford Unit, Texas

Censorship, Staff Negligence, and Extreme Heat at the Telford Unit, Texas

Since 2011, at least twelve Texas prisoners have died from heat stroke, which was a result of the sweltering temperatures inside buildings, dorms, day rooms and the cells where prisoners live. Hundreds more have suffered heat-related illnesses, many of whom were among the elderly and disabled inmates housed at the Wallace Pack Unit. This does not include prisoners who didn’t report their injuries or those who attempted to treat themselves. The Pack Unit is a medical and geriatric prison where…

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The wheels of injustice: He spent 24 years in prison for something he didn’t do – here is the evidence to prove it

The wheels of injustice: He spent 24 years in prison for something he didn’t do – here is the evidence to prove it

Absolute power corrupts absolutely, or however the saying goes, which is how the District Attorney’s Office in Dallas County, Dallas, Texas has been operating from the early 1990s up to today. It’s highly possible that these same corrupt tactics have been used way before what I’m about to describe, but I choose to focus on the documented events I was able to witness and research. This includes an outright wrongful conviction campaign by D.A. Jason January, who tried to coax…

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Reliving the Past: A Hands-On Experience of Modern-Day Slave Labor in the Lone Star State

Reliving the Past: A Hands-On Experience of Modern-Day Slave Labor in the Lone Star State

Since the birth of the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC), now called the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), Texas has used a not so subtle tool of profit and anti-social control to exploit its captives via unpaid forced labor. This method, both grassroots scholars and many average laymen agree on, is akin to a benign form of slavery – thus to say modern day slave labor. In fact Texas’ first form of prison management was on former slave plantations….

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The Importance of Public Support and Scrutiny: From Physical to Psychological Warfare

The Importance of Public Support and Scrutiny: From Physical to Psychological Warfare

The value of having support beyond these prison walls is invaluable. The prison administration knows this as well, which is why they set rules and guidelines that can only be fought and petitioned outside of their protracted prisoner grievance and appeal procedures. If they are individually challenged from within, staff of all ranks can and will use each other’s “written-in-stone” integrity to escape punishment. One example of this is the grievance procedures. During the investigation of our complaint, a sergeant,…

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Report on Unhygienic Living Conditions at Ramsey Unit, Texas

Report on Unhygienic Living Conditions at Ramsey Unit, Texas

As I explained in a previous piece, we prisoners at the Ramsey Unit in Rosharon, TX, have to drink discolored and contaminated water. Besides this, we are being forced to live, eat and congregate under conditions that are egregiously unsanitary. Every cell has a colony of roaches living in it. Throughout this prison are many cellblocks. Each cellblock has a number of cells that remain closed while we are in the day room. Several times a day we are allowed…

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Confessed killer strangles cellmate to death – Texas prison staff tries to shirk liability

Confessed killer strangles cellmate to death – Texas prison staff tries to shirk liability

Odd as it seems, seeing prisoners left for dead or killed by guards is nothing new to me. The reason this may seem odd is that each death was during my seven-year stint in solitary confinement, and I was a prime witness or in earshot of a direct witness. It seems that the Ad-Seg Transitional Program (ASTP), where I am now, is no exception where the killing of prisoners is concerned, as I was recently in the proximity of another….

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