Jason's Prison Journal

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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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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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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As dirty as they are, officials here at the Clements Unit maximum security prison (mainly high ranking staff) have gone to the extreme to, what seems to be, retaliate against Kevin “Rashid” Johnson and those who are helping him organize and report staff abuse. Most notably on March 7, 2017, I was moved from the Ad-Seg restriction pod and placed on the same pod as Rashid (5 cells down). This move stemmed from a false major disciplinary case (which was…

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I’ve been housed in solitary confinement at the Clements Unit maximum security prison since 2010. From the very first day I stepped foot in a cell here, I witnessed other prisoners being denied meals for days for little or no reason at all, beaten by roguish members of the cell extraction team under the direct orders of Major Clark and Sgt. Lance Mondragon, and a number of other foul acts previously carried on unknown to the media and the public….

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For the past several months there have been many attempts by prison officials to disrupt the efforts of me and Kevin Rashid Johnson, exposing them for killing and denying prisoners food, medical care and basic necessities. Normally, acts like these carry on without guards and medical staff being punished. This is due to the fact that prison officials have become accustomed to the prisoners turning a blind eye to what they see or are unaware of how to effectively bring…

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In Texas Prisons, guards are notorious for beating, killing, and harassing prisoners. They also set up prisoners to be attacked by other prisoners while handcuffed from behind, and they’re even known to assist prisoners in committing suicide, even when the prisoner has no intentions of doing such thing. These cruel practices are so common in solitary confinement, and the grievance system is so inadequate, that many prisoners don’t bother to file complaints against staff. But when prison guards deny a prisoner…

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