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Training Day: TEXAS PRISON STAFF TAUGHT GUARDS HOW TO COVER UP ASSAULTS BEFORE THEY BECAME POLICE OFFICERS

Training Day: TEXAS PRISON STAFF TAUGHT GUARDS HOW TO COVER UP ASSAULTS BEFORE THEY BECAME POLICE OFFICERS

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…

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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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TDCJ DIGITAL MAIL RULE UPDATE

TDCJ DIGITAL MAIL RULE UPDATE

BY Jason Renard Walker In July 2023 the Texas Department Of Criminal Justice created a rule, preventing organizations, businesses and the public from sending mail directly to Texas prisoners. By September 6 2023 it would be effective on all TDCJ units. The rationale for this policy was to curb the amount of contraband entering Texas prisons, but the most common contraband found in Texas prisons(methamphetamines, cellphones, weapons) has no logical way to be hidden in incoming mail from the public….

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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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Increased Violence Prompts State Wide Prison Lockdown: The Texas Department Of Criminal Justice In Words And Prophecy

Increased Violence Prompts State Wide Prison Lockdown: The Texas Department Of Criminal Justice In Words And Prophecy

By Jason Renard Walker Uncontrollable violence and drug smuggling within the Texas Department Of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) compelled officials to launch a statewide prison lockdown, on the early morning of September 6 2023. Prisoners where I am housed woke up hungry and disappointed. The lockdown occurred on our scheduled commissary day and breakfast sacks wasn’t fed until after 12:00pm. The normal time is 4:00am. TDCJ officials suggest that the violence increasing throughout the system is linked to the amount of…

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Life on the Island: Connally Unit Guards Use Unsanitary Showers as Respite Areas

Life on the Island: Connally Unit Guards Use Unsanitary Showers as Respite Areas

Life on the Island: Connally Unit guards use unsanitary showers as respite areas By Jason Renard Walker, 7 August 2022 Administrative staff and ranking guards at the Connally Unit are allowing guards to use a dark unsanitary shower as a respite area for medium custody prisoners housing in 8 Building’s J-Pod, commonly known as “the island”. On August 6 2022, during 1st shift, a Hispanic-looking male guard approached me and my cellmate. We were told the respite area is a…

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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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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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Their Crimes, Our Punishment: TDCJ’s State-Wide Deadly Use of Force Cover-Ups

Their Crimes, Our Punishment: TDCJ’s State-Wide Deadly Use of Force Cover-Ups

By Jason Renard Walker The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has a very secretive state-wide deadly use of force policy. This unwritten policy’s designs give guards the ability to beat and kill prisoners, while facing minimum, if any, punishment themselves. The Clements Unit in Amarillo, TX; Robertson Unit in Abilene, TX; Ferguson Unit in Midway, TX; Eastham Unit in Lovelady, TX; Telford Unit in New Boston, TX; Allred Unit in Iowa Park, TX; Ellis Unit in Huntsville, TX and Polunsky…

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