Uncaring People Inside

Uncaring People Inside

"A letter telling how uncaring people at Price Daniel Unit don't care about inmate's lives."

William Rex Beckham / Skittles

Inside Books Project Archive

Texas After Violence Project

30 June 2020

public -- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

document

English

testimony

North America--United States--Texas

6-30-2020
Dear Sheltering Justice,
Hello my name is William Rex Beckam but everyone calls me Skittles. I’m an inmate on the price Daniel unit in the Texas Prison system. Today Warden number 02 and captain Hoover came in J1-building, C-wing and racked everyone up in there cells. When I asked why? Warden 02 said it’s A Precautionary lockdown until they get A inmates covid-19 test results back. When they racked everyone up 2 other inmates came forward saying that they were also sick. When they went to medial there tempatures were taken and both inmates had a fever. So medical sat them A room that was A/C until there tempature went down, then re-took there tempatures said they were fine and sent them right back to the wing. They didn’t do no Covid-19 testing and medical hasn’t been coming in here at all or taking anyone’s tempatures yet there are many people sick. Price Daniel unit is trying to sweep the sickness under the rug, All so they can look good and save money on testing. I don’t know if they even have the tests to do it or maybe their hands tied by those above them, I don’t know. I do know that it makes for A very unhealthy situation for all those here at this unit. Talk about one of the most uncaring acts I’ve seen in my 5 1/2 years of being incarcerated. I made parole on April 2nd and have been in changes 3 class since April 13th, which has to be finished before I can leave says my FI3R. Yet we have been getting packets in order to do so, well my teacher Ms. Greene has already messed up on my packets and now in order to fix it I was giving two Module 7 packets on 6-22-2020 which I finished. But when I went to school on 6-29-2020 Ms. Greene was suppost to take packet module 7 then take me to do my Resume for the module. But because she didn’t feel like it and plainly dont care she gave em back module 7 plus my two last packets of module 1 and said next week bring it back and ms. Campbell will help you do your Resume and collect your finished work. So because Ms. Greene put her job off

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Ms. Campbell and I didn’t get to do my Resume and now we are on A precautionary lockdown I wont be able to leave my cell to do my Resume which should have been done already. I might not get to finish my changes 3 class for parole for who knows how long. Then with the prison not doing tests or tempature checks and by sending inmates back to there cells and trying not to act as if there not sick it could spread. The inmates who went to medical that are sick live in cells 212 and 213 and I’m next door in cell 214. I say that to let you know we share vents and breath the same air. Everything could lead upto me catching Covid-19 because of the very careless actions of those in charge. And because I can’t finish my class so I can get out and because medical and staff arent doing there jobs right. Its only going to get worse. How uncaring to me and my family on the outside, and to all the other inmates here on the price Daniel unit. This is what we are experiencing inside these walls while being incarcerated during the covid-19 pandemic. Uncaring people inside.
Much love & respect always
Skittles

William Beckam #01990717
Price Daniel unit
938 South FM 1673
Snyder, Tx
79549