It’s common practice for many TDCJ employees, department heads, officers, medical staff, teachers and supervisors to share food with inmates, talk football with them, play favorites and do all sorts of inappropriate things.
As Christmas gets closer, you will see a lot of agency employees sharing food items, with their porters, work crews, students, etc. It happens every year. Especially, during the holidays. Never mind that death row inmate Martin Gurule, as well as the “Texas 7”, as the media labeled them, escaped during holidays. Luckily, Gurule was found dead, in Harmon Creek, where it flows in to the Trinity River. The “Texas 7” killed an Irving, Texas policeman, on Christmas Eve.
These folks NEVER learn. It was a “trusty”, that brought a gun in to the Walls Unit, that was used in the Carrasco siege, in 1974. Some weak, friendly boss didn’t strip search him. This kind of crap was going on long, long before there was a staff shortage.
Is it right? No. Is everyone doing it? Of course not. However, a lot of state employees do. Complacency, weakness and friendliness are cancers. They have been slowly consuming this agency for a long time.
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