While the pressure generated by the explosive propellant is substantial it is not nearly as high as that of the pneumatic guns. The selection of Propellants is quite possibly the most important part of spud gun performance. The propellant is the fuel burned during combustion.
Oscar Byron Ellis, director of a state prison farm in Tennessee, was hired as general manager, later director, of the Texas prison system; working from his base in Huntsville, he implemented a reform program that brought fundamental changes in the management of Texas prisons.erman L. Crow, Political History of the Texas Penal System, 1829â1951 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, 1964). Steve J. Martin and Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1987).
The Texas Syndicate's golden rule is as simple as it is merciless: Betray us and you're dead. Authorities contend that in the past decade, members of the Texas Syndicate, which is the state's original prison gang, have carried out at least 50 murders, solved or unsolved, in addition to countless extortions, kidnappings, robberies and assaults.