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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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…