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  • Six Years Without Conviction

    Pretrial Detention, AI-Enabled Surveillance, Environmental Coercion, and Structural Torture in a Texas County Jail Author and Testifying Witness:LeRoy Nellis Affiliation:Independent Researcher and Human Rights Witness Location:Texas, United States Date:January 2026 SECTION 0 — MASTER INDEX PART I — FRAMEWORK & AUTHORITY 1. Introduction: Pretrial Detention as Punishment Without Conviction 2. Methodology, Sources, and Ethical Positioning…

  • Coercive Conditioning in U.S. Pre-Trial Detention: Psychological Mechanisms, Human Rights Risks, and Pathways for Reform

    Coercive Conditioning in Pre-Trial Detention: Psychological Mechanisms and Human Rights Implications By LeRoy Nellis (Published on LeRoyNellis.blog and Academia.edu) Abstract Pre-trial detention in the United States was designed as a narrow administrative safeguard intended to ensure a defendant’s appearance at trial. In practice, however, the environment of pre-trial confinement often functions as a psychological conditioning…