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.
As I was fixing to leave the United States Penitentiary in Hazelton, West Virginia, I must admit that I was very happy to get out of there. Everything about that place felt evil. When you walked insid...
This is part two of the takeover of the United States Penitentiary, in Hazelton, West Virginia. The last several chapters I have written about a man from Kentucky, who came to prison with a 10-year se...
In my last few chapters, I’ve talked about a man I met in the United States penitentiary in Hazelton, West Virginia. And some of the things he’s witnessed in his almost 3 decades in prison. In my ...
I have been writing about my time in the United States penitentiary in Hazelton, West Virginia. The insanity of this place in the way it’s run is something most people in our country couldn’t ever...
I sit in my cell and wonder how on earth can prison systems like the ones I’ve been to still be allowed to exist in our country? Without a doubt it seems to me that corruption is everywhere. From th...
In my last several chapters I’ve written about the United States Penitentiary in Hazelton, West Virginia. I’ve talked about a man I met in Kentucky who everyone called KY, and his struggles to sur...
In my last chapter I had written about meeting a man at the United States penitentiary in Hazleton, West Virginia, who has 28 years in prison. Meeting him was a real eye-opening experience to the real...
As I sit in the United States Penitentiary in Hazleton, West Virginia, I couldn’t help but wonder how the federal government allowed their prison system to get so far out of control. I mean think ab...
As I sit here in the United States penitentiary in Hazelton, West Virginia, I couldn’t help but see and feel the evilness of this place. For the people reading this, I don’t know if you have ever ...
My first morning at the Hazleton prison was difficult. It seemed that everyone who worked there had an attitude. Hey, are we going to medical? “No.” Do we get to use the phones? “No.” Can we g...
After two months sitting in this federal correctional center in Youngstown, Ohio, I was told one morning to be ready about 4:00 in the morning the next day, because I was being shipped out to another ...
We hear this a lot through our lives that “times are changing. But I hear it now more so than I ever heard it in my life. And it is true times are changing.”...
