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.

October 5th, 2018

There are people who picture in their minds that everybody in prison is some street hoodlum that they see in the movies, but the truth is that the people in here come from every walk of life....

September 28th, 2018

Several times, you've read my words that if any genuine and long-lasting change is going to take place in a person's life when they are incarcerated, it is going to be a self- initiated program of reh...

September 14th, 2018

Violating the zero-tolerance policy of sexual activity or smoking K2- synthetic amrijuana- would be serious breaches of the rules around here, or in any prison....

September 7th, 2018

It shouldn't surprise me, or the people who have been reading some of these chapters the kind of crap they can come up with to screw over the prisoners...

August 31st, 2018

As we move along into the 1990s, it seems like the whole prison system was in total chaos. What in the hell am 1 saying. The prison system in Texas has always been in total chaos. ...

August 24th, 2018

Setting aside for the moment that there's no -stich thing as a Kindle in here, there are books everywhere, and it's easy to find something to satisfy any kind of taste. ...

August 17th, 2018

I want to talk about another issue that has plagued the men and women inside the Texas prison system- the heat...

August 10th, 2018

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...

August 3rd, 2018

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 ...

July 13th, 2018

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. ...

May 7th, 2018

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...

May 2nd, 2018

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...

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Proceedings

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