Williamson County Jail Torture Tactics
LeRoy Nellis II spent 336 days in solitary confinement at the Williamson County Jail, and he has written down what he says happened there, officer by officer and month by month. He is a pretrial detainee in the account, and the record describes punishment without adjudication. The names are specific, the dates are specific, and I am setting the record out exactly as he wrote it, because it reads as an indictment rather than a metaphor.
The claim
Nellis puts it in his own words, and the words carry the whole allegation. “I personally endured these torture methods during my 336 days in solitary confinement,” he writes. “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 to vanish.”
The first fifteen minutes
The account begins in January 2024, within the first fifteen minutes of his arrival at the jail. When he sought protective custody, the record says, Sgt. Bruce Young answered, “I don't have enough guards and you will be amongst your own.” That refusal of protective custody is listed as the opening act, and the record dates a campaign of humiliation from December 2023 through the present.
The medical record
The medical entries are the most concrete. The record lists an injection of 50cc's of COVID vaccine, and it states that the injection resulted in an outbreak in Williamson and Travis Counties. The names EMT Joshua Ransom and EMT Larry Davis sit beside the entry.
It alleges a medically induced stroke, and that diabetic medications were denied for all of January 2025 by the Medical Director. A delay of medications reached 19 hours in December 2024, attributed to CO Lutz. It says diabetic meter readings were falsified from November 2024 through July 2025, and again from May 2025 through July 2025, attributed to CO Ransom. It also alleges medications were prescribed and altered without a licensed physician's examination from January 2024 through July 2025, and overdosing of medication without clinical justification.
The physical record
The physical methods run from a restraint chair to a set of rooms the record calls the Southside Torture Rooms, dated August 2024 through July 2025. The restraint chair is dated June 2024 and lasted 2.5 hours, and the record says it was conducted alongside the taking of religious materials and throwing them in the garbage in front of him.
The record dates the twisting of handcuffs to December 10, 2024, at 1pm, attributed to CO Li, and names CO Best, CO Alvarado, CO Jassic, CO Lindaman, CO Karg, and Sgt. Callahan in the same entry. Punching is also dated December 10, 2024, at 1pm, again attributed to CO Li. Water was turned off three separate times following the denial of diabetic medication, the longest for 19 hours. The record adds restraints by CO Smith and five others with cameras, sexual assault by CO Ramirez on multiple occasions via the cell camera, and emasculation.
A numbered record
1. The restraint chair (2.5 hours): Dated June 2024, with the confiscation and destruction of religious materials in the same event.
2. The handcuff twisting (Dec. 10, 2024): Attributed to CO Li at 1pm, alongside six other named officers and Sgt. Callahan.
3. The diabetic denial (all of January 2025): Attributed to the Medical Director, followed by water shutoffs, the longest lasting 19 hours.
4. The “Hootch Ingredients” write-up: A bowl of fruit, a bowl of water with orange peels, and alcohol swabs written up as a fictitious policy infraction, attributed to CO Wheeles and CO Karg.
The paper trail
The procedural allegations are the constitutional core of the record. It says grievances were destroyed or not processed, that write-ups were retaliatory and followed grievances, that housing changes came without notice or hearing, and that an unpublished “policy” was used to justify punishment. It alleges paperwork weaponization, falsified incident reports, and denial of access to legal materials and attorney communication, and it describes policies in direct conflict with U.S. and state laws.
Surveillance and environment
The record lists 24/7 audio and video monitoring used for intimidation, officers referencing private conversations, surveillance escalating after grievances, and filming during nudity, restraint, or medical distress. It names Sgt. Rebecca Ramirez in the entries for forced nudity and sexual assault and for seclusion, both running through July 2025. It adds music torture, baby music, sensory deprivation, sensory overload, sleep deprivation, and solitary confinement, dated August 2024 through July 2025, and brainwashing by ISF actors from January 2024 through July 2025. It alleges continuous vibration and shaking, extreme noise amplification, HVAC manipulation, mold exposure, and constant illumination or darkness as punishment, along with theft of commissary and medical funds, price gouging, no mail, no outside food except books, and starvation through food portions cut down, Johnny Sacks, and denied commissary.
What remains open
The document is one man's account, written as testimony rather than a pleading. But the names, dates, and numbers are all on the page, and none of them are vague. The open question is what the jail's own records say in response — and whether a pretrial detainee can be held for 336 days in solitary under the torture tactics described here without a single one of them being answered.