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.
The last time I wrote you, I was still basking in the air-conditioned comfort of the Diboll Unit, and I had many of the creature comforts you take for granted like an ability to enter and exit my “b...
While I haven’t much experience with oncology, I’ve far too much experience with medical care in the Texas prison system, and so I issued a “red alert” of my own, and asked the readers of thes...
The lawsuits that Cruz and Jalet, and the eight hoe squad began, would’ grow into a legal case that would shake the Texas prison system to the core....
The warden and major accused Fred Cruz of “agitating” the other prisoners. If he kept writing people about matters that didn’t pertain to his case, he would be put in solitary indefinitely....
The longer I’ve been here at my new prison, the more I see how they take advantage of this COVID-19. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the importance of safety. I know that every prison had to set ...
I want to show how the prison system will take any situation and turn it into an opportunity to punish hundreds of prisoners, because of a few idiots....
Saying goodbye is an unfortunate part of prison life that it provides ample opportunity for meeting new people and building new friendships, but the cost of that is the certainty that most of the peop...
It’s pretty safe to say that the people running this prison system are criminals who do not obviously care about the laws of the state, or the federal laws, that our country is governed by...
Throughout my book, I have written about the atrocities that have taken place, and continue to take place, inside the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system. Jovell Dennis is one of the saddest s...
