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  • Six Years Without Conviction

    Pretrial Detention, AI-Enabled Surveillance, Environmental Coercion, and Structural Torture in a Texas County Jail Author and Testifying Witness:LeRoy Nellis Affiliation:Independent Researcher and Human Rights Witness Location:Texas, United States Date:January 2026 SECTION 0 — MASTER INDEX PART I — FRAMEWORK & AUTHORITY 1. Introduction: Pretrial Detention as Punishment Without Conviction 2. Methodology, Sources, and Ethical Positioning…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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

    Oversight Without Accountability: Systemic Corruption and Human Rights Violations in Texas County Jails By LeRoy NellisAustin, Texas Executive takeaway: Texas county jails operate inside a compliance theater—lots of forms, zero consequences. Oversight exists on paper. Accountability does not. The result is a closed-loop system that monetizes detention, externalizes harm, and neutralizes complaints through procedure instead…

  •    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…

  • Williamson County Sheriff’s Office  and NCIC/Securus Torture – Detail Timeline

    Notice Regarding Live Record, Ongoing Interference, and Continuous Updates This publication constitutes a live evidentiary record. The contents of this site reflect information that has been subject to unauthorized access, alteration, suppression, and interference over time. As a result, material may be added, corrected, restored, or updated on a rolling basis as records are recovered,…

  • Williamson County Jail Took My Bible — Then Put Me in a Restraint Chair for 2.5 Hours

    This is not a misunderstanding. This is retaliation. The restraint chair — a mechanical control device used in jails. I was strapped into one like this for approximately 2.5 hours for refusing to surrender my Bible. While detained at Williamson County Jail, the jail staff confiscated my Bible and then escalated to physical punishment when…

  • Ricky Armstrong Assistant Director Texas Commission on Jail Standards Email Stating that “No deficiencies were noted.”

    RESUBMISSION OF PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUEST   AND FORMAL COMPLAINT — WILLIAMSON COUNTY JAIL You Fri 10/24/2025 4:20 PM =========================================== RESUBMISSION OF PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUEST AND FORMAL COMPLAINT — WILLIAMSON COUNTY JAIL =========================================== Date: October 14, 2025 To: Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) Ricky Armstrong<ricky.armstrong@tcjs.state.tx.us> ​You;​info​ A comprehensive inspection of the Williamson County Jail was…