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Powledge Unit Prisoner Found Hanging In Cell: He Told Guards He Was Suicidal, They Told Him To Submit A Sick Call Request For Help 

Powledge Unit Prisoner Found Hanging In Cell: He Told Guards He Was Suicidal, They Told Him To Submit A Sick Call Request For Help 

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By Jason Renard Walker  According to witnesses that lived near Matthew Percival in Powledge unit’s restricted housing cellblock: On January 26 2025 Percival told every guard that passed his cell he was feeling suicidal. Two African staff in particular told Percival to submit a sick call (hand written request for medical care) then walked away.  A guard who never works in restricted housing said he discovered Percival hanging from a rung connected to the top bunk, around 7:23pm during a…

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ANOTHER TEXAS PRISONER DEAD, ANOTHER COSTLY SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH

ANOTHER TEXAS PRISONER DEAD, ANOTHER COSTLY SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH

By Jason Renard Walker The sudden Death of Texas prisoner, Jackie Dewayne Wiley, raised many questions, provided few answers and became a financial burden to loved ones he left behind. At approximately 4:55pm on May 25 2024, an unresponsive Wiley laid strewn on the Hutchins unit dormitory floor as, according to witnesses, TDCJ staff provided sub par life saving measures, before placing his body on a gurney and hauling it to the infirmary. He was pronounced dead at 5:37pm. Wiley’s…

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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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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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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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PROTECTING YOUR HEALTH AND SAFETY AGAINST THE PRISON MURDER SQUAD HIERARCHY

PROTECTING YOUR HEALTH AND SAFETY AGAINST THE PRISON MURDER SQUAD HIERARCHY

By Jason Renard Walker Introduction The purpose of this report is to inform prisoners living in Polunsky Unit’s death row and ad-seg cell blocks on ways to protect themselves and their property against Polunsky’s deadly cell extraction teams and silent partners, that use their job titles to assist in the cover ups. I’ve also listed the known actors and usual suspects that, I learned, make up a small piece of the administration’s murder squad hierarchy. This is being done in…

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The Valentine’s Day Murder: Another Prison-Assisted Suicide in Texas

The Valentine’s Day Murder: Another Prison-Assisted Suicide in Texas

By Jason Renard Walker Since March of 2021, ten former Texas prisoners were reported to have died while incarcerated at the Alfred Hughes Unit, in Gatesville, Texas. According to custodial death reports, Carlos Martinez died April 1, 2022, from what witnesses say was a suicide by hanging, following a verbal altercation with guards who’d been interrogating Martinez about contraband cell phones. On April 14, 2022, Philip Henry Freeman was found hanging inside of a small holding cage, located right in…

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