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  • 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…

  • Liberty Before Conviction: Constitutional and Human Rights Dimensions of Pre-Trial Detention in the United States

    By LeRoy Nellis LeRoy Nellis is an investigative author and constitutional researcher based in Austin, Texas. Section 1: Abstract Abstract Pre-trial detention represents one of the most profound constitutional tensions in the American criminal justice system—balancing public safety with the presumption of innocence. Though the Eighth Amendment prohibits excessive bail and the Fourteenth Amendment safeguards…

  • THE $800 MILLION QUESTION: How Williamson County’s “New Jail” Became Texas’ Next Big Prison Boondoggle

    THE $800 MILLION QUESTION:How Williamson County’s “New Jail” Became Texas’ Next Big Prison Boondoggle By LeRoy Nellis A Billion-Dollar Rumor, an $800 Million Reality When whispers of a $1.2 billion “mega jail” started floating through Williamson County earlier this year, few residents took it seriously.  But behind the rumor was a real, very expensive plan…