[from Socialism and Democracy, 27:1 (March 2013); published text at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2012.760266]
Introduction
Virginia’s prisons claimed 22 years of my life. Those years were not kind or gentle. The last 14 were spent in extreme solitary confinement, in Virginia’s
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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.”
… 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
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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
… 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
… Read the restApril 7, 2017
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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It’s a truism that power corrupts; and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But that’s not the end of the story.
In Amerika, prisons constitute the most absolute exercise of state power. Within their confines, officials control the
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“The Public Information Office of [the] TDCJ has perfected the art of misinforming the public about the conditions inside all TDCJ facilities … Jason Clark is the chief spokesperson for TDCJ. Clark and his colleague Robert Hurst are professional liars… Read the rest
