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.

July 28th, 2023

After I arrive at the federal detention center in Youngstown, Ohio, I was put into quarantine for 15 days. Right away I noticed their quarantine was nothing like the one I’ve been in Texas, or in st...

July 21st, 2023

After sitting in the Ohio reception center for two months waiting to see the parole board for my violation, I was finally going to have a hearing. It had been a slow two months because I had been sitt...

July 7th, 2023

Even though I was finally out of the Texas prison system and on my way to an Ohio prison to face a parole violation from the 1980s, I must admit all that I had seen and went through was still weighing...

June 29th, 2023

Well after 15 years and three months I finally had an out date to leave prison. When I first arrived here at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas, I was supposed to leave the next day....

June 23rd, 2023

As I have sat here the last 15 years and looked at the insanity of the Texas prison system, I have asked myself thousands of times when does it end?...

June 16th, 2023

I’ve written a few chapters called great escape, where I made fun at some crazy moments in my life. These moments were not funny at the time because I should have been killed, or sent to prison for ...

June 9th, 2023

From my personal experience the last thing the Texas prison wants to give someone is hope. They talk a good game when they speak about rehabilitation,...

May 26th, 2023

Many times I have wondered how anyone can come out of the Texas prison system and not have some type of sociological damage. I do get that present is supposed to change us, but one would assume that i...

May 19th, 2023

Inside the Texas prison system “all of your senses are assaulted here, especially your sense of justice.” I can’t imagine a better description of my time here. From the moment I got off the bus ...

April 28th, 2023

Over the last 15 years of incarceration I have wondered many times where would American be without drugs? How much further advanced would we be?...

April 21st, 2023

Has anyone ever thought about where our country would be today without drugs? In my last two chapters I talked a lot about how things used to be before the industry age. And explained why I thought th...

April 14th, 2023

My life of crime began when I was just a pup, and it sparked at the intersection of two tendencies I’ve shown since before I could remember. First, I was a born wander....

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Proceedings

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