Gay prisoner murdered
Justin Levi Galloway The sister of an inmate found dead with a noose around his neck accuses TDCJ of allowing torture and humiliation DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com The day before he was found murdered in his cell at the Gib Lewis Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, 42-year-old Justin Levi Galloway told his mother in a phone call, “I’ll never get out of here alive.” Galloway was in his fourth year of a five-year prison sentence he was serving at the Gib Lewis Unit, about 60 miles north of Beaumont.
In the last letter he sent to his sister, Sarah Frodge, he said of prison officials, “These people don’t value my life.” Galloway’s Aug.
5 murder was at first ruled a suicide after his body was found in his cell with a noose around his neck, a puncture wound in his neck and cuts to his arm.
But with less than a year left on his sentence, Galloway was set to be released on parole, and his family disputed the suicide ruling, saying he had everything to live for.
