West Texas Beat

My a name is Anita I came to the realization of the broken down Texas Prison System when my 16 year old son was charged with murder on May 14, 2005 and then with the aide of juvenile detention officers on May 29, 2005 my son was let out. He was found on June 11, 2005 sitting on bench at a High School in San Diego, California. He was extradited back to Abilene, TX two weeks later after Governor Rick Perry signed his ticket back to Texas. He was certified to stand trial as an adult on December 19, 2005 and was transferred to the Taylor County Jail and incarcerated amongst adult men. So my nightmare begins into a journey that enlightened me into the racial disparities of the Texas legal System. I started collecting stories while waiting to visit my son at the Juvenile Detention Center, and any where else I had the opportunity to, my son was also collecting stories when one day he met Moishe a 15 year old youth whom was brought in to the juvenile detention center on July 11, 2005 and was also being charged with murder. One day Moishe was visiting with his mother Deborah when my son in his desperate plea for help screamed thru the air-duct vents where Moishe and Deborah sat visiting "Call my mom! Call my mom!" Deborah and Moishe astonished as to what they were hearing she scribbled the number on her arm. That’s when two determined mothers joined forces and the WEST TEXAS BEAT was established. With the assistance of the Southeastern Christian Association www.southeasternchristianassociation.org a nonprofit, human rights organization based in Houston, Texas. The national president is Dr. LeRoy Gillam with his Executive Assistant Zena D. Crenshaw, presently a lawyer before the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Executive Director of National Judicial Conduct and Disability Law Project, Inc. (NJCDLP) as well as The American Whistleblowers' League, a project of NJCDLP. [See: www.government-insiders-forum.org] Her own record of being professionally disciplined for publicly alleging judicial misconduct is a subject of www.focus-on-indiana.org Zena is also an administrator for The High Grass Council which manages the national "Speak Up" campaign featured at www.wespeakup.org. Our journey began into the broken down desperate lives of mother’s, sisters, brothers, and families that had been torn apart by the cruel Texas system of manufacturing our children into the dark and intricate world of incarceration. A web-site for the residence of Taylor County Tx was established to collect the many horror stories throughout the “Friendly Frontier”. www.westtexasbeat.net. On October 11, 2006 a lawsuit was filed in the Northern District Court of Texas under Moishe Curtis Turner by his mother and next best friend, Deborah Johnson and Juan Manuel Albarado by his mother and next best friend Anita Guajardo, challenging the long sitting District Attorney James Eidson in his personal capacity and not as District Attorney of Taylor County and his Closed File Policy. Moishe Curtis Turner (black youth) was certified to stand trial as an adult on October 19, 2005 and transferred to the adult County Jail in Taylor County Abilene, Tx where he has been denied his education and put in lock-down behind tobacco many times; he is still awaiting his trial. Juan Manuel Albarado (hispanic youth) was certified to stand trial as an adult on December 19, 2005 and transferred to the adult County Jail in Taylor County Abilene, Tx where he has been assaulted twice by adults and put in lock-down continuously for tobacco; he is still awaiting his trial.
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Anita Guajardo