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Jason Renard Walker

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Jason Renard Walker’s Biography

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Jason Renard Walker is a published writer, activist and organizer located in the Texas prison system. In the past year Jason has been under a constant campaign of harassment, retaliation and physical assault by prison guards, which was in response to his published writings criticizing prison conditions.

Most notably, Jason subsequently gets transferred from one prison to the next as a corporal form of punishment as well as to thwart his effort to organize with other prisoners. At each prison h…

Jason Renard Walker’s Journalist Portfolio

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Heat-related conditions at the Allred Unit are cruel and unusual

Heat-related conditions at the Allred Unit are cruel and unusual

Heat-related conditions at the Allred Unit are cruel, unusual and a purveyance of unwritten policies By Jason…

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Prisoner found half-dead in bloodbath: Back to TDCJ's houses of horror and staged gladiator fight...

Prisoner found half-dead in bloodbath: Back to TDCJ's houses of horror and staged gladiator fight...

As prison guards had the door of D-Pod Cell 203 opened, the body of a prisoner, who appeared to be Hispanic o…

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Grey Suit Protection: Ellis Unit guards Admit Assaulting Prisoners, But Aren't Held Accountable -...

Grey Suit Protection: Ellis Unit guards Admit Assaulting Prisoners, But Aren't Held Accountable -...

Prison reporter Jason Walker continues his dispatches from the inside, this time detailing a horrific gas att…

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It is in the spirit of our ancestors I move forward and keep fighting

It is in the spirit of our ancestors I move forward and keep fighting

As white fists swung at me and dirty cheap boots kicked me, Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Fred Hampton, N…

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Telford Unit Exposed: Investigation Reveals Prison Employees Falsified Records - It's Going Down

Telford Unit Exposed: Investigation Reveals Prison Employees Falsified Records - It's Going Down

During his time at the Telford Unit, Jason Renard Walker faced continual retaliation and harassment from staf…

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Jason Renard Walker: Racist guard files trumped-up felony assault charge, then bribes coworker to...

Jason Renard Walker: Racist guard files trumped-up felony assault charge, then bribes coworker to...

Introduction: Jason is urgently requesting help in beating an attempted frame-up. Below is a suggested script…

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Protecting your health and safety against the prison murder squad hierarchy

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By Jason Renard Walker, Karpani Burns
| San Francisco Bay View Verified
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 who use their job titles to assist in the coverups. I’ve also listed the known actors and usual suspects who, I’ve learned, make up a small piece of the administration’s murder squad hierarchy.
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Sadomasochistic guards use prisoners as human battering rams

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By Jason Renard Walker, Karpani Burns
| San Francisco Bay View Verified
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.
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Jason Walker: Each move is far worse than the last

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By Jason Renard Walker
| San Francisco Bay View Verified
by Jason Renard Walker I’ve been moved to another prison. Normally, moving from one prison to the next is like a lottery. But in my situation, each move is far worse than the last. And I’m strategically being sent where the SCC (State Classification Committee) is well aware danger is present. My move from Hughes was a result of a prisoner notifying staff that inmates at Connally Unit and Robertson Unit sent a message to Hughes Unit about getting me killed. I assume cell phones were used.
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