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.

January 31st, 2020

A modern-day version of the Chinese water torture is alive and well in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. How, you might ask? Oh, let me count the ways....

January 24th, 2020

By taking the time to choose and learn a different way of life, nothing but your own mind can allow you to fail. As Napolean Hill states, ...

January 17th, 2020

If you put the two prison sayings together "What you just said is the absolute truth." & "Believe nothing you here, and only half of what you see.", you can see that a lot of us in here are pretty ske...

January 10th, 2020

Is it any wonder the Texas prison system is filled with corruption? It's run by criminals!...

December 27th, 2019

One of the volunteers who comes to the Diboll Unit to minister is a woman who is still on parole from a life sentence. something she said the other day really made me think about how blessed I've bee...

December 20th, 2019

As I look back into my memory bank, I've decided to share with you one of the craziest trips I have ever made....

December 13th, 2019

Since coming to this privately-run Texas prison, I’ve learned that MTC has built the better mousetrap when it comes to incarceration. And no, I’m not on their salesforce....

December 6th, 2019

Due to all of the deaths over the heat in the Texas prison system, T.D.C.J. has been under fire for allowing inmates to be severely tortured to death. So far they have admitted to 23 prisoner deaths d...

November 29th, 2019

I want to talk about several things in this chapter that mean a lot to me and every prisoner serving time in T.D.C.J. I have thought a lot about how I can describe the situation that I am wanting to t...

November 15th, 2019

In an article from C.U.R.E. (Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants) they advocated for the repeal of the 13th Amendment, not because he endorsed the next round of slavery, but because it a...

November 8th, 2019

In my previous chapter I talked a little about the Texas prison system Correctional officers 1-5 or shift guards. ...

November 1st, 2019

It seems to me at times like everyone that works for the Texas prison system is mad, or feels it's their duty to act mad. ...

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Proceedings

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