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One Prisoner Overdosed, Others Go Bonkers After Sampling Powledge Unit’s ‘Mystery Dope’ 

One Prisoner Overdosed, Others Go Bonkers After Sampling Powledge Unit’s ‘Mystery Dope’ 

By Jason Renard Walker  Paper saturated in, what was supposed to have been, K2 found its way onto the Powledge unit’s trusty camp in the month of September 2024. Witnesses say a group of trusties smoking a new batch immediately began screaming, acting abnormal and attacking each other, shortly after getting high. This caused prisoners in the vicinity to run off to avoid being injured.  As one prisoner fled the pandemonium, officer Conway sprayed him in the face with pepper…

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Powledge Unit’s Unconstitutional Drug Detox Center

Powledge Unit’s Unconstitutional Drug Detox Center

By Jason Renard Walker In September of 2023, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) introduced its digital mail rollout program. This program requires that friends and family send all letters, greeting cards and photos to an address where it can be scanned and electronically sent to our securus tablets. Justification for implementing this policy, was due to the large amount of drugs that end up in Texas prisons state wide. Thus TDCJ foolishly suggested that stopping the public from…

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TDCJ BODY CAMERA ROLLOUT

TDCJ BODY CAMERA ROLLOUT

By Jason Renard Walker  Earlier this month, TDCJ Director Bobby Lumpkin released a statement on our securus tablets, announcing the use of body cameras by TDCJ staff. Starting with the maximum security facilities, these devices will eventually be used in every Texas prison throughout the state.  At the start of each officers shift the cameras will be turned on, with the exception of them being paused during prisoner strip searches that are non confrontational and a for few other reasons…

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Training Day: TEXAS PRISON STAFF TAUGHT GUARDS HOW TO COVER UP ASSAULTS BEFORE THEY BECAME POLICE OFFICERS

Training Day: TEXAS PRISON STAFF TAUGHT GUARDS HOW TO COVER UP ASSAULTS BEFORE THEY BECAME POLICE OFFICERS

BY Jason Renard Walker  OVERVIEW  The Ellis unit is more than just your typical prison within the jurisdiction of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). It is a dream job for assaultive guards that are also aspiring police officers, and those wanting unlawful training in the profession of inflicting harm on innocent and unruly subjects.  Huntsville Texas is home to the Ellis unit as well as several other men’s prisons. This town is historically known as being a stomping…

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TEXAS PRISON GUARDS’ ATTEMPT TO MURDER HANDCUFFED PRISONER UNDERSCORES TDCJ’S STATEWIDE DEADLY USE OF FORCE SHENANIGANS

TEXAS PRISON GUARDS’ ATTEMPT TO MURDER HANDCUFFED PRISONER UNDERSCORES TDCJ’S STATEWIDE DEADLY USE OF FORCE SHENANIGANS

By Jason Renard Walker “This guy was just completely unresponsive, I mean, he’s out cold now and they’re just continuing to beat him” -Tim Nixon, Coffield unit prisoner that witnessed a mob of guards try to beat a handcuffed prisoner to death in solitary confinement The Offices Of Inspectors General (OIG) listed former TDCJ prison guard, Abayomi Ipoola, as a “sole suspect” in the Sept 5 2023 beatdown of Coffield unit prisoner Kiheem Grant, while a dozen other guards involved…

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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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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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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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