Tag: Jail Oversight Failure

  • When Williamson County Policy Replaced the Law

    How Williamson County Operated Above Texas and the U.S. Constitution By LeRoy Nellis Executive Summary While detained pretrial, I learned a hard truth: inside Williamson County Jail, internal “policy” routinely overrode Texas law and the U.S. Constitution. What governed daily life wasn’t statute, case law, or due process—it was an administrative rulebook enforced without transparency,…

  • 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…

  • Texas Commission on Jail Standards Attn: Executive Director Brandon S. Wood

    The Appendix A was changed this morning not to include the section of A. ALLEGATIONS ADDRESSED BY TCJS — RESPONSE DEFICIENT..I changed it back to the origional.. (January 9, 2026 @ 11:38 am) VIA CERTIFIED MAIL AND EMAIL Texas Commission on Jail Standards Attn: Executive Director Brandon S. Wood P.O. Box 12985 Austin, Texas 78711…

  • Texas county jail pre-trial detention murder cover-up

    Evidence image — Texas county jail pre-trial detention conditions and cover-up allegations. How Texas County Jails Are Covering Up Murder Before Trial Medical Neglect, Solitary Confinement, and the Paperwork That Makes Death “Natural” Texas Is Killing People Who Haven’t Been Convicted Texas county jails are not merely failing people awaiting trial. They are killing them—quietly,…

  • Injected Without Consent: Inside Williamson County’s Sheriff’s Office Medical Black Box

    By LeRoy Nellis I was not sentenced.I was not convicted.I was a pretrial detainee, presumed innocent under the Constitution.In early 2024, while in custody connected to Williamson and Travis Counties, I was administered a large-volume injection—approximately 50 cubic centimeters—without informed consent, without explanation, and without a documented medical justification that has since been produced.What makes…

  • Texas Commission on Jail Standards Says Williamson County Has “No Violations” — Even as Texas Rangers Investigate Three Deaths in 2024

    By LeRoy NellisDecember 6, 2025 Texas has a talent for telling you everything is fine while the house burns down behind it. And nowhere is that bureaucratic gaslighting more polished than in the way the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) continues to give Williamson County Jail a clean bill of health—even as the Texas…

  • Oversight Without Accountability: Systemic Corruption and Human Rights Violations in Texas County Jails

    By LeRoy Nellis Texas County Jail Corruption & Oversight Study — LeRoy Nellis (published @ Academia.edu and LeRoyNellis.blog) 1. Abstract Texas’s county jail system—comprising more than 240 local detention facilities—occupies a central but often overlooked role in the American carceral landscape. Over the past decade, a growing body of investigative journalism, advocacy reports, and government…

  • ⚡ TIMELINE OF SYSTEMIC WARFARE & TORTURE

    Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, NCIC, and Securus — Integrated Master Timeline of Coercion, Torture, and Retaliation An evidentiary record documenting surveillance, isolation, medical coercion, reputational destruction, and psychological warfare imposed on a pretrial detainee. Author & First-Hand Witness: LeRoy Nellis Austin, Texas 2019–Present NOTICE — LIVE RECORD / ACTIVE INTERFERENCE This publication constitutes a live…