Super Segregation in Prison, by Jay Goodman In this segment, I want to take you into Texas’ High-Security Super Segs. You’ll remember I wrote that the state built these new units to house the gang members and other violent prisoners that were responsible for so much of the bloodshed in the late 80’s and […]
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Second Class Prisoners by Mike Powers As I’ve written each one of the essays you’ve read so far, it’s been my goal to present as much relevant and interesting material as possible, but always with the goal of change in mind. Nothing can be done, unless the people with proper authority in our
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SPREADIN’ by Mike Powers 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 thing which might surprise you. Since I’ve been locked up, I’ve met
Super Segregation in Prison, by Jay Goodman This is part two of the essay I started about the TDCJ’s high-security super segregation units. As I talked about the war between the gangs and all the Violence that was happening, I suspect a lot of you probably thought, “What crazy people! They NEED to be
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The Death of a Cartographer by Mike Powers I just got back from John Seely Hospitalvin Galveston, Texas, where I had surgery on my toes. Specifically, I had a “joint capsulotomy, metatarsal osteotomy, toe correction, tendon lengthening, and splint application”. The doctors and nurses were great, but when you’re in prison, sooner or later,
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The Great Escape by Jay Goodman I’ve been hitting you all with some pretty heavy stuff, lately, so Iwanted to take a break and tell you one of the funny stories from my life ofadventure. Thinking about the many tales I could relate, I decided to tellyou about one of my near misses, where
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The Long, Warm Shower By Mike Powers When I first got to my “I.D.” unit (a prisoner’s unit of assignment), I tried to explain to my friends and family how it took three hours to take a shower. They couldn’t believe it. I’m not trying to say that every shower I try to take
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The Texas Department of Criminal Injustice, by Mike Powers Every six months, no matter whether it’s needed or not, TDCJ prison units are given a semi-annual shakedown. The way it works is that on a day as close as possible to the 6-month anniversary of the last shakedown, at about 6 AM, an announcement
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Making of Warzone in Prison by Jay Goodman After David Ruiz won his federal lawsuit and the judge put monitors at each of the prison units to insure their compliance with his orders, the Puppetmasters started the biggest war the state has ever seen. Of course, they will say, “How did we start a
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Building a Behemoth 2 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
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