Within a year, three federal lawsuits have been brought behind the tortured deaths of men imprisoned at the William P. Clements Unit in remote Amarillo, Texas.
The latest suit was filed on Oct. 11, 2016 in the U.S. District Court … Read the rest
The following article by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson was written for (and will appear in) the book The Racialization of Murder, co-edited by StanDoyle-Wood, Bedour Alagraa and Gurpreet Johal, and due out in 2017.
There is an organic link … Read the rest
Monday, September 5, 2016: Labor Day. Here at the William P. Clements Unit, a prison in remote Amarillo, Texas, the prisoners awoke to a late breakfast. A single PBJ sandwich, a small bowl of dry cereal, and no … Read the rest
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Please note to download high resolution copy you must click the “read the rest” link first, then right-click the image and select “save link as”, or else go directly to the gallery (click “art” above)… Read the rest
Please note to download high resolution copy you must click the “read the rest” link first, then right-click the image and select “save link as”, or else go directly to the gallery (click “art” above)… Read the rest
Please note to download high resolution copy you must click the “read the rest” link first, then right-click the image and select “save link as”, or else go directly to the gallery (click “art” above)… Read the rest
“They’re lying!” It’s almost a reflex response whenever prisoners expose abusive practices of their keepers. Then come the appeals to prejudice: We’ve been convicted of crimes they say, which implies we simply shouldn’t be believed; as if everybody in … Read the rest
31 year old Alton Rodgers, a Black man imprisoned at the Clements Unit in Amarillo, Texas, died on January 19, 2016, at the Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo. He was found unconscious in his cell the day before by … Read the rest
Suddenly Texas prison officials are banning prisoners from having people outside of prison maintain social media accounts for them. Since prisoners do not otherwise have direct access to the internet we can’t manage our own social-media accounts. Officials are taking … Read the rest
