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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…

  • Formal Letters to U.S. Senators Regarding Securus and Pre-Trial Detainee Abuse

    By LeRoy Nellis Austin, Texas January 24, 2026 The following are formal mailing letters sent to U.S. Senators who have publicly criticized Securus Technologies or the prison telecommunications industry. These letters document concerns regarding the use of jail communication and surveillance systems as tools of coercion against pre-trial detainees and their families. I have already…

  • 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…

  • Texas Jail Oversight Closed My Case. Here’s What They Didn’t Address.

    Texas Commission on Jail Standards letter dated January 13, 2026, responding to an appeal and maintaining closure of Complaint #43888. The Texas Commission on Jail Standards recently issued a final decision closing my complaint against the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. The Commission acknowledged receipt of my appeal, reviewed records supplied by the jail, and…

  • AI-Enabled Surveillance, Attorney-Client Interference, and Retaliatory Digital Interference

    Pattern-or-Practice Civil Rights Violations in County Detention AI-Enabled Surveillance, Attorney-Client Interference, and Retaliatory Digital Interference Prepared by: LeRoy Nellis Austin, Texas United States Citizen Date: January 8, 2026 U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Special Litigation Section (CRIPA) 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530 The Honorable Ron Wyden United States Senate 221 Dirksen…

  •    Williamson County Sheriff’s Office / NCIC / Securus — Domestic Black Site.

    Williamson County Jail Torture, Harassment, and Surveillance Program NOTE: This is a live document and may change at any time. “I personally endured these torture methods during my 336 days in solitary confinement. This isn’t metaphor—it’s lived reality. Every restraint, every humiliation, every hour of sensory deprivation was designed to erase me. But I refused…

  • Williamson County Sheriff’s Office  and NCIC/Securus Torture – Detail Timeline

    Notice Regarding Live Record, Ongoing Interference, and Continuous Updates This publication constitutes a live evidentiary record. The contents of this site reflect information that has been subject to unauthorized access, alteration, suppression, and interference over time. As a result, material may be added, corrected, restored, or updated on a rolling basis as records are recovered,…