When someone goes to prison, we don't expect it to be like attending a country club. The media often paints famous prisons like a stay at summer camp. The truth is that Texas prisons are FAR from any vacation. In fact, they are a business established to keep people in as long a possible and consider it a victory when someone returns.
These letters are written by those who have first-hand experience as a prisoner to the atrocities going on each day. They tell of inhumane treatment by those in charge to people that were entrusted to ensure basic rights as a human.
Prisoners without a doubt can be some of the most confuse people on earth. It’s almost like they have blinders on, because they cannot see to the left or right of themselves. Their path is one way, ...
It’s always amaze me to see how certain groups at. Everyone talks about respect in prison. I mean there’s not a day that goes by that you won’t hear someone use this word. It’s used in almost ...
Once we started coming out of our cells a little more, everyone is trying to figure out who each other are. While I was at the United States Penitentiary, it seems to be run by different gangs. The ma...
The United States of America in my opinion is the greatest place to live. I have been all over the world and I have loved a lot of other countries I’ve visited. But to me, there has never been a pla...
Getting moved to a new prison is always stressful, even though I have already 16 years incarcerated, moving to a new place is something I’ve always disliked. It’s really hard for me to explain it....
One of the things I have tried throughout the years in my writings is to explain how prison life truly is. Not from a Hollywood version, but from my standpoint of what it’s been like for me, a man w...
One thing about doing time is you will hear story after story of other prisoners’ experiences in prisons all over the country. If a man goes to prison, he is subject to being moved from state to sta...
As I was fixing to leave the United States Penitentiary in Hazelton, West Virginia, I must admit that I was very happy to get out of there. Everything about that place felt evil. When you walked insid...
This is part two of the takeover of the United States Penitentiary, in Hazelton, West Virginia. The last several chapters I have written about a man from Kentucky, who came to prison with a 10-year se...
In my last few chapters, I’ve talked about a man I met in the United States penitentiary in Hazelton, West Virginia. And some of the things he’s witnessed in his almost 3 decades in prison. In my ...
