Following Texas prison officials planting a weapon in my cell on March 26, 2017, then stealing most of my personal property on April 6, 2017, in an ongoing pattern of retaliation for and attempts to repress
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Supporters have received word that Kevin “Rashid” Johnson was picked up by Virginia officials and removed from Clements Unit on Thursday, June 23rd. He is no longer being held by Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Thanks to so many people
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When in January 2016 ranking TDCJ officials sole the media the story that Alton Rodgers, a Black man who was imprisoned at the William P. Clements Unit in Amarillo, Texas, died from injuries sustained in a
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Rashid was transferred from Reception and Medical Center to Florida State Prison, we learned from a letter written on July 17 and received July 24.
Rashid was thrown in solitary, called Close Management (CM), accused of being a “gang leader,”
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by Jason Renard Walker, Deputy Minister of Labor, NABPP
Many courts have held that a serious medical need is “one that is so obvious that even a lay person would easily recognize the necessity of a doctor’s attention.”
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Our friend Rashid is being retaliated against for his prison organizing. He had a shank planted on him (see “Planted Weapons and Stolen Property: Mounting Retribution for Continued Exposures of Abuses in Texas Prisons” and “Rashid Attacked – Again: Texas
… Read the restI was on E-Pod 201 cell when Lt. Perry got a 5 man team to go in E- Pod-121 A Hispanic offender. Who was on the floor in blood. Offender in E-Pod 119. Told the officer working on the Pod,
… Read the restHis name is Jessie Gonzales. At least that’s what a medical staff member told me. He died in an ambulance on the prison grounds on March 13, 2017, but was revived. A guard told me that. He
… Read the restThe Texas Department of Criminal (In)Justice (TDCJ) maintains what it calls an Ombudsman’s office, whose supposed role is to keep the TDCJ accountable to the public for its treatment of those it imprisons. In theory this means
… Read the restAs dirty as they are, officials here at the Clements Unit maximum security prison (mainly high ranking staff) have gone to the extreme to, what seems to be, retaliate against Kevin “Rashid” Johnson and those who are helping him organize
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My name is Joseph F. Bailey II, TDC #1300260.
I’m a prisoner confined within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice at the William P. Clements Unit. At all times relevant to this statement, I was so confined.
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