Jason's Prison Journal

“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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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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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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