By Jason Renard Walker Let’s get one thing straight: I do not have a weird fetish for getting prison guards in trouble when they violate their own policies or Texas state law, nor do I give a fuck about what they doing on the side to earn extra money. I am obsessed with staying alive and surviving in an environment where employees here don’t give a fuck whether we receive basic health care, nutritious food, safety or the bare minimum…
BY Jason Renard Walker OVERVIEW The Ellis unit is more than just your typical prison within the jurisdiction of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). It is a dream job for assaultive guards that are also aspiring police officers, and those wanting unlawful training in the profession of inflicting harm on innocent and unruly subjects. Huntsville Texas is home to the Ellis unit as well as several other men’s prisons. This town is historically known as being a stomping…
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…
By Jason Renard Walker Seconds after having his cell gassed by Polunsky Unit’s Lieutenant Corbett, Marquis Kingbury #2303732, a black inmate, was nearly killed by Corbett, Sergeant Schwartz, and a team of racist white guards in riot gear, as they rushed into his solitary confinement cell with a large shield and riot baton on July 22 2021, between 1:25 pm and 1:49pm. I was Kingbury’s neighbor and a witness. It was the most senseless and brutalizing beating I’ve ever heard. After…