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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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Allred Unit guard gasses hung prisoner, ranking unit guard orders to leave him hanging

Allred Unit guard gasses hung prisoner, ranking unit guard orders to leave him hanging

By Jason Renard Walker Despite the seasonal deaths and murders at Allred Unit’s maximum security prison, just outside Wichita Falls, Texas; prison guards are still responding to these incidents as if no remedial training or reprimands were ever dished out to curtail wrongful deaths. Though, chances are, none were. After I arrived back to this unit following an 18-month hiatus and brief stays at four different units; in less than two weeks, two Hispanic prisoners in 4 Building’s F-Pod hung…

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Staff Calls Close Custody Prisoners’ Death A Homicide

Staff Calls Close Custody Prisoners’ Death A Homicide

By Jason Renard Walker, NABPP Minister of Labor Prison investigators have labeled the death of a Clements Unit prisoner, a homicide. A Hispanic prisoner was found dead in the 3 building close custody wings, A-pod, cell 72 on the morning of April 13, 2020. Making it the first reported Clements Unit murder of the year. Unverified accounts from witnesses state that the dead man’s cellmate flagged staff to the body, after being in the cell with it for several days….

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Chill Factor: The Unjust Response to Prisoner Deaths at the Allred Unit

Chill Factor: The Unjust Response to Prisoner Deaths at the Allred Unit

By Jason Renard Walker, Minister of Labor, NABPP What’s there to hide? From the beginning of my arrival at the Allred Unit in Iowa Park, Texas, it became obvious that this prison was no different than any other I’ve been to, given the overt racism and slave-like treatment. But as the days passed, I soon learned that, unlike many other prisons, prisoner deaths and subsequent cover-ups was the norm. So normal that investigators (OGI) only spoke with prisoners who saw…

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The Raw Truth about Dying in a Remote Texas Prison: An Official Cover-up

The Raw Truth about Dying in a Remote Texas Prison: An Official Cover-up

By Jason Renard Walker, a Texas prison writer As the year 2016 comes to a close, I am constantly reminded about a prisoner, 31-year-old Alton Rogers, a black male, who was found unresponsive and covered in bed sores in his cell on January 18, 2016. He died at the Northwest Texas Hospital here in Amarillo, Texas on January 19. He’s the third prisoner in the past three years, to die as a direct and proximate result of medical neglect, deliberate…

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Confessed killer strangles cellmate to death – Texas prison staff tries to shirk liability

Confessed killer strangles cellmate to death – Texas prison staff tries to shirk liability

Odd as it seems, seeing prisoners left for dead or killed by guards is nothing new to me. The reason this may seem odd is that each death was during my seven-year stint in solitary confinement, and I was a prime witness or in earshot of a direct witness. It seems that the Ad-Seg Transitional Program (ASTP), where I am now, is no exception where the killing of prisoners is concerned, as I was recently in the proximity of another….

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California prison sleep deprivation hits Texas; How the mysterious death of one prisoner results in a cause of action to torture the others

California prison sleep deprivation hits Texas; How the mysterious death of one prisoner results in a cause of action to torture the others

Federal courts have spoken extensively on the harm sensory deprivation causes, with Texas leading the pack in terms of harm caused. It is internationally known what the cause and effects are from just sitting in solitary confinement, so no need to elaborate there. But what has recently come into question (and has been briefly spoken on in recent years) is a revolutionized form of sleep deprivation that’s much worse than 24-hour lighting or the screaming of the mentally ill. This…

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Inmate Left To Die on Cell Floor After Being Gassed

Inmate Left To Die on Cell Floor After Being Gassed

While this Texas prison, Clements Unit, has well over one-thousand documented mentally ill prisoners, its not considered a psych unit at all. In fact it has one small ward that has a program for mental health patients and that’s it. Very rarely do you find a prison guard or medical staff member that’s willing to use integrity across the board when it comes to handling and caring for the mentally ill. Since 2013, three well-known mentally ill prisoners have died and two…

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