Letters From Inside the Prison

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.

April 7th, 2023

All through my life I have heard my great grandfather, my grandfather, then my mom and dad say, “times are changing.” In the past, I never gave this much thought. But now that I am 56, I finally u...

March 31st, 2023

In the world we are taught from the time we’re children to trust police officers. Even if we weren’t taught this, I believe most people learn that it’s natural for most people to have trust in t...

March 24th, 2023

Moving to a new place from a dog's perspective....

March 3rd, 2023

Not many people will ever understand the effects of prison life, or what it does to someone to lose years or decades of their lives. Why there’s many who will say it’s just, and some cases I would...

February 24th, 2023

Has anyone ever thought about the importance of family? In your minds go back in time to when you were a child, go back as far as you can remember. Think about your entire family structure, your grand...

February 17th, 2023

The full expression is “the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.” Simply put, it means that the ideology or philosophy that is talk to the children will soon enough become the practice of s...

February 10th, 2023

I have written several chapters called great escape where I poked fun at some moments in my life we are law-enforcement had me dead to the right, but I was able to somehow slip away and do it in such ...

January 23rd, 2023

In the vein of what I was saying in my last chapter, I have to ask, “when is enough enough?” When have there been enough apologies, pandering’s, payments in sentences before Black Lives Matter s...

January 20th, 2023

After serving 15 1/2 years inside of the Texas prison system I am at a loss of words at everything I witnessed. There’s not a person alive who can lose that many years of their lives and not be affe...

January 6th, 2023

I can remember the day I arrived at the Texas Department of criminal Justice. It was over 100°, I mean it was on fire! Around 50 of us left to Houston County Jail around five in the morning, and when...

December 29th, 2022

I’m listening to the news on the radio, and again, as has been true for over two weeks now, I am pushed beyond the precipitate pure of disbelief at what I’m hearing. I watch the images emanating f...

December 23rd, 2022

Sometimes in life you never know how a certain situation you’re put in will change you forever. Whether the situation you face is good or bad, everyone will have an opportunity to grow from each exp...

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Proceedings

The Attorneys
  • Francisco Hernandez
  • Daniel Hernandez
  • Phillip Hall
  • Rocio Martinez