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  • Texas County Jails and the Hidden System of Pre-Trial Torture

    Texas County Jails and the Hidden System of Pre-Trial Torture By LeRoy NellisAustin, Texas What’s happening inside Texas county jails is not a series of isolated abuses.It is a system. Over the past two decades, Texas county jails have quietly transformed from short-term holding facilities into coercive pressure chambers for people who have not been…

  • Systemic Harm in Williamson County Jail

    🧱 Scene: The Procession I had passed an independent psychological exam just two weeks earlier. Cleared. Stable. Fit to engage. But inside Williamson County Jail, that meant nothing. Because if they can’t make you crazy, they’ll drive you crazy. That’s the logic. That’s the ritual. I was on the fourth floor, wearing a smok—a suicide…

  • Williamson County Jail Took My Bible — Then Put Me in a Restraint Chair for 2.5 Hours

    This is not a misunderstanding. This is retaliation. The restraint chair — a mechanical control device used in jails. I was strapped into one like this for approximately 2.5 hours for refusing to surrender my Bible. While detained at Williamson County Jail, the jail staff confiscated my Bible and then escalated to physical punishment when…

  • Police Brutality and Excessive Force in Williamson County, Texas

    Comprehensive Research Report (Digital Edition) By LeRoy Nellis I. Executive Summary This report documents a pattern of alleged police brutality, excessive force, and custodial abuse associated with law enforcement in Williamson County, Texas, with a focus on the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) and the county jail. From the 2014 SWAT takedown of 81-year-old Herman…

  • Democratic Socialism — Context & Controversies

    Summary By LeRoy Nellis  Definition Democratic socialism is often presented as distinct from authoritarian communism. Its stated goal is to merge social ownership of resources with democratic governance and individual rights.Yet history shows that several movements describing themselves as democratic socialist have, in practice, drifted toward corruption, economic collapse, censorship, or selective repression once concentrated power and economic control collided. Modern…

  • Democratic Socialism — Context & Controversies

    By LeRoy Nellis  Definition Democratic socialism is often presented as distinct from authoritarian communism. Its stated goal is to merge social ownership of resources with democratic governance and individual rights.Yet history shows that several movements describing themselves as democratic socialist have, in practice, drifted toward corruption, economic collapse, censorship, or selective repression once concentrated power…

  • Systemic Medical Abuse in Williamson County Jail: 

     How Part-Time Medicine and Unlicensed Practice Destroyed My Health By LeRoy Nellis (Published on LeRoyNellis.blog and http://www.academia.edu) SECTION I — INTRODUCTION I write these pages not as a lawyer, not as a journalist, but as a man who survived the medical system inside the Williamson County Jail—if “system” is even the right word. For 326…