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)…