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.
I’d like to take you into the 1990’s now, showing you some of the things that occurred in the Texas prison system. Not much had really changed from the chaos of the 80’s except that the TDCJ was...
I know what you all have seen in the movies about how inmates and officers get along. The relationships vary from the Green Mile to Alcatraz and everything in between, and as far as that goes, with a ...
Last time, I started telling my story in hopes that I could keep others from following in my footsteps. I’d like to pick up where I left off last time, because it was kind of a cliff-hanger. ...
I went back in time in my last installment to explain the systemic brutality of the Texas prison system. I wrote about turnkeys who committed all kinds of atrocity in the name of the law, and how a...
I’ve written about how TDCJ used to be run. I have talked about the worthless grievance system. And, I told you a little about how the kitchens are being run. About that, I’m trying to get some go...
I lived a double-life in the freeworld. One was as a perfect husband, father, brother and friend. Sadly, the other one was destined for coming to prison....
You might have gotten the impression from the writing so far that everything about being locked up in the TDCJ is just plain rotten. Well, it is. Okay, except for maybe this one thing, and it’s a th...
Most all of us at one time or another are going to experience a trip to the hospital sometime in our lives, and usually these memories leave some unpleasant memories for us. Note, imagine your worst n...
My job here on the unit is clothing exchanger. What that means is that I work for the laundry department and my specific task is to take dirty clothes and exchange them for clean ones every weekday...
As the 1980’s came to an end, Texas by now, was one of the most violent prson systems in our country. Every day, people were being stabbed or killed. Inmates’ families were calling Huntsville and ...
