By Jason Renard Walker 

Paper saturated in, what was supposed to have been, K2 found its way onto the Powledge unit’s trusty camp in the month of September 2024. Witnesses say a group of trusties smoking a new batch immediately began screaming, acting abnormal and attacking each other, shortly after getting high. This caused prisoners in the vicinity to run off to avoid being injured. 

As one prisoner fled the pandemonium, officer Conway sprayed him in the face with pepper spray, then called other staff for assistance. This prisoner, along with several others, was handcuffed and sent to restricted housing without being given their tablets and property. 

According to one guard, the uncalled-for gassing of the prisoner incited others on the camp to start a nonviolent protest that nearly ended in an uproar. An employee who often works at the camp claims that many prisoners were drug tested following the event and a piece of paper found tested positive for a variety of drugs, including Methamphetamines and opium. 

One prisoner unrelated to the event, but who had tried the paper, told his restricted housing neighbor that every high was different, deeming it a mystery dope. This same drug caused another prisoner to overdose to the extent that the unit’s captain had to administer narcan spray, single-handedly saving the prisoner’s life.

Regardless of what the paper is saturated with, it is called, sold and smoked as K2 throughout TDCJ. Making it a misnomer and easy route to an overdose or death.

Rumors posted to a Powledge unit Facebook support group page and the TDCJ Troll forum, falsely stated that the Powledge unit was on a mandatory annual lockdown. This included the notion that Securus tablet service would be suspended. But to me this seems like a TDCJ-instigated lie to cover up that the trusties were temporarily on a drug-related movement suspension until order was restored and explain why those sent to restricted housing couldn’t use the phone or emessaging service. 

As of September 16 2024 the Powledge unit has not been placed on any lockdown, but they did have inmate workers spending the first part of the month: cleaning, painting and revamping the kitchen, in preparation for the annual audit they are always notified about in advance. And on September 12 2024 the restricted housing unit did undergo an annual lockdown style, cell shakedown. 

But doing such a thing is a normal damage control skit, whenever the unit has to report a murder or drug related event to a higher administrative body like Huntsville. 

Jason Renard Walker 1532092 

PO Box 660400
Dallas, TX 75266-0400