Tag: jail surveillance
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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…
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Williamson County Sheriff’s Office Harboring Illegals for Testimony
By LeRoy Nellis | Austin, Texas Inside a jail, you stop taking people at face value. By the time this happened, I was already being illegally detained inside the Williamson County Jail. I had also already figured out that not everyone housed around me was who they claimed to be. Some presented as inmates, spoke…
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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…
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“Inside the Secret AI Surveillance: A Whistleblower’s Story.”
I never imagined that my background would prepare me to recognize what was happening inside a county jail. But when you’ve spent decades in network security, surveillance systems, RFID deployment, and access control, you see patterns other people miss. Introduction Step inside the modern American jail system—a place where surveillance is constant, data is harvested…
LeRoy Nellis 