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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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  •    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…

  • 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…