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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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POWLEDGE UNIT PRISONER FOUND DEAD IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT CELL, ANOTHER HOSPITALIZED AFTER HEART ATTACK

POWLEDGE UNIT PRISONER FOUND DEAD IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT CELL, ANOTHER HOSPITALIZED AFTER HEART ATTACK

By Jason Renard Walker One Powledge unit prisoner was found dead in his solitary confinement cell on New Year’s Day and another had to be hospitalized, following a near death heart attack. The deceased, who was identified by staff as Garrett, was previously housed in the unit’s 14 dorm before being placed on medical isolation, where he was ultimately found unresponsive a week or so later. Garrett is the second such person to be found dead in a Powledge unit…

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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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Sadomasochistic guards use prisoners as human battering rams

Sadomasochistic guards use prisoners as human battering rams

by Jason Renard Walker Introduction In her book “True Crime File,” Kim Daly revisits how normal seeming humans often engage in perversions in which sexual gratification is achieved by inflicting mental or physical pain on others and sometimes on themselves. In the clinical sense, these individuals are labeled as sadists or sadomasochistic. The only symptom that is obvious is the aftermath of their skewed endeavors to “get off.” And even then, through terrible oversight and luck, they have a tendency…

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CORONAVIRUS CONTINUES TO SPREAD AT THE CLEMENTS UNIT BECAUSE NO QUARANTINE HAS BEEN INITIATED

CORONAVIRUS CONTINUES TO SPREAD AT THE CLEMENTS UNIT BECAUSE NO QUARANTINE HAS BEEN INITIATED

By Jason Renard Walker, NABPP Minister of Labor The Clements Unit was hastily put on a medical lockdown on April 8, 2020. From the outset, prisoners were told that the medical lockdown would be discontinued 14 days later. 46 days later, prisoners are still waiting for the 14 days to pass, so that hot meals, recreation, library books and so on can be distributed. Even visits to the infirmary have been put on hold. Short of death, sick call requests…

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The COVID-19 Cover-Up: Exposed Prison Guard May Have Contaminated Over 140 Prisoners

The COVID-19 Cover-Up: Exposed Prison Guard May Have Contaminated Over 140 Prisoners

By Jason Renard Walker, NABPP, Minister of Labor The Clements Unit is knowingly allowing guards infected with the coronavirus to work at the prison. In its early stages of infesting the prison; the coronavirus had gone undocumented in the month of March 2020, despite sick prisoners and rampant signs of the virus everywhere. The focus didn’t seem to be on preventing staff from bringing it in. The focus was on preventing healthy guards from getting the virus from sick prisoners…

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Medical Co-pay Fees Force Inmates’ Denial of Medical Care Despite Rampant Signs of the Corona Virus

Medical Co-pay Fees Force Inmates’ Denial of Medical Care Despite Rampant Signs of the Corona Virus

By Jason Renard Walker, NABPP Minister of Labor Prisoners in the Clements Unit’s close custody building (A pod) are showing signs of the coronavirus; the $13.55 medical co-pay fee has deterred all, but one, from seeking treatment. The loud sound of coughs and spitting have illuminated the cellblock after one prisoner sought medical care and was told to hold his breath, then denied further treatment. Another was issued common cold medication and turned away. I myself have gotten sick, a…

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Texas prisoner suffering stroke denied medical care, left for dead on cell floor for over 12 hours

Texas prisoner suffering stroke denied medical care, left for dead on cell floor for over 12 hours

Many courts have held that a serious medical need is “one that is so obvious that even a lay person would easily recognize the necessity of a doctor’s attention.” See Brown v. Johnson, 387 F.3d 516, 522 (7th Circuit, 2008). Being denied medical care at the Clements Unit Maximum Security Prison in remote Amarillo, Texas, is so common that the average prisoner here can expect to be denied some form of medical care during his stay. False claims of prisoners…

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Medical Staff Passively Watch Potential Tuberculosis Outbreak: Healthcare in Prison Couldn’t be so Indifferent

Medical Staff Passively Watch Potential Tuberculosis Outbreak: Healthcare in Prison Couldn’t be so Indifferent

Despite having a history for being negligent, abusive, and indifferent to our safety, prison officials and medical staff here at the Clements Unit in remote Amarillo, TX are still getting let off the hook; even though evidence proves that they are responsible for the deaths of three prisoners. It’s obvious that the problems at this prison aren’t being circulated to the right authorities; or if they are, these officials are being indifferent as well. This can be seen in the…

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