Jason's Prison Journal

By Jason Renard Walker Starting July 17 2023 general mail from the public to Texas prisoners will have to be sent to their new digital mail processing center. From there it will be read,scanned and digitally sent to the prisoners securus tablet within three business days. There is no limit on the amount of mail that can be sent to prisoners through this route. Any sender that wishes to have their own photos,greeting cards and mail sent back to them…

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As prison guards had the door of D-Pod Cell 203 opened, the body of a prisoner, who appeared to be Hispanic or white, fell over by the entrance; a large pool of blood ran out of the door, dripping down to the first tier. It was like a scene directly out of a scary movie. Lying in his own blood bath while his cellmate slept, this prisoner, bound to the confines of isolation, tried to remove himself from this reality…

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Former Telford Unit employee Sheila Forte was recently fired for her role in falsifying records, connected to a false disciplinary case I received on Sept 13 2018. Forte held the job title Counsel Substitute III, which is supposed to act as a prisoner’s advocate during disciplinary hearings. But evidence reveals that Forte deliberately conspired with other officials by failing to notify me (and possibly others) that we had pending major disciplinary cases. Then falsified records by claiming that I refused to…

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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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After randomly being awakened in the early morning, boarded onto the TDCJ transportation bus, then shipped to the Ramsey Unit, a prisoner told me that the experience was like “being snatched from a dungeon and sent to a new wave slave plantation.” The statement he made is a reality that many prisoners housed in close custody units and solitary confinement cells throughout the state of Texas are experiencing, on a whim. In fact, the majority of prisoners that are sent…

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From the first day I stepped foot in a jail cell, I immediately got a good taste of what it’s liked to be housed around the mentally ill. These prisoners are nothing like your average prisoner, starting with how they live and smell. While it’s common to walk past a mentally ill prisoner’s cell and see him passively strutting in his own feces and chanting tribal war cries with shit smeared on his face like warpaint, it’s absurd and ridiculous…

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