July 10, 2020

  A Christmas Blessing in Prison by Mike Powers   I was on the chain again last week for my first followup visit after my surgery for hammer toe. With my usual
 luck, I managed to draw an appointment that took me on my travels (or should I say “travails”) during one of the most […]

  Hope And Sleep Hope and sleep are probably the two best friends of the prisoner. That is probably also why they are the two greatest tools of torturous interrogators. Keep a man awake long enough, and he’ll be confessing to having kidnapped the Lindbergh baby and shooting John F. Kennedy all while flying a

  Useful Carnage I want to show you how the Puppetmasters began to spin their web of deceit, manipulation and lies, and left a slew of inmates dead along their path to trying to regain control of the state prison system after Ruiz. With everything I’ve written so far, I’m sure you can see the

  A MEDICAL ADVENTURE  by Mike Williams   And here’s the second installment of my ongoing saga of incarceration in the TDCJ. I’m really not trying to whine. Really, but this is such a great way to let the reader know the things that are going on in here that no one besides God will

  Building Behemoth by Jay Goodman 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 Austin, demanding answers from elected and governor-appointed officials, but everyone seemed powerless to do

  12 1/2 years in Prison By Mike Powers Francisco Hernandez   I have 12 ½ years in prison in the State of Texas, and as I’m sure everyone will agree, Texas is well—known for their toughness on crime. However, from what I’ve seen, when it comes to what happens IN prison, that toughness seems

  Executing the Innocent By Jay Goodman Every state seems to want to be known for their toughness on crime, and naturally, Texas is no exception to this rule. In fact, Texas takes pride in leading the country in its number of uses of the death penalty,leading the nations  for many years in the annual

  A TRIP TO THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE by Jason McGraw Francisco Hernandez   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 nightmare of a hospital visit and

  Going to Prison Chapter 5 by Jason Chase   Early morning I’m awakend and informed I’m on chain. After what seemed like forever waiting to start a prison sentence experience, up until now, I could only imagine in my head and piece together information given from inmates who have been down before. Even with

  KEEPING IT CLEAN by Mike Powers 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. I REALLY like my job. It doesn’t take up a lot