Voluntary Change 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 rehabilitation that will achieve it.This change might start ;(and had best start) with a change of […]
Continuing Education In my last chapter, I wanted to give everyone a different view of the men and women in the Texas prison system. I want everyone to understand that there is so much raw talent inside these Texas prisons, it’s unbelievable. And if there was more focus on rehabilitation than trying to control
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You Can Make Changes By Jay Goodman I have wondered many times why so many people in life don’t want to make a positive change in themselves. I look at all the people around me in prison and sometimes I am in awe at the complete disregard to authority a lot of prisoners have.
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Diboll Does It Better By Mike Powers How I wound up on what must be the only county club prison in Texas is beyond my pay-grade, but there can be no question that I am inexpressibly grateful for it. And believe me, I’ve run through the possibilities. There’s even a conspiracy theory angle on
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Power By Jay Goodman It’s crazy the way power goes to people’s heads. Throughout history, we’ve seen it in different forms and in places we might never imagine. We’ve seen it with rulers of large countries such as Russia and Germany. And it’s evident in the tiniest of nations. Look at what Fidel Castro
Respite By Jay Goodman Due to all of the deaths over the heat in the Texas prison system, T.D.C.J. has been under fire for allowing inmates to be severely tortured to death. So far the Puppet Masters controlling this prison system have admitted to 23 prisoner deaths due to heat-related causes since 1998. A
The Beginning Of The End By Mike Powers It was a little past 10:30 at night on Thursday, July 26, 2018. I’d been incarcerated now four thousand five hundred sixty-one days. On October 6th, it’ll be an even 13 years – Over 85% of my fifteen-year sentence, for which I was eligible and qualified
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Not Sent to Prison to Die By Jay Goodman I want to talk about several things in this chapter that mean a lot to me and every prisoner serving time in T.D.C.J. I have thought a lot about how I can describe the situation that I am wanting to talk about. The best idea
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Bright, Shiny Ideas How many times in your life have you seen a cartoon about a better mousetrap? It’s probably hundreds if not thousands, right? It’s so common to the American experience and entrepreneurial spirit that “building a better mousetrap” has become the idiomatic phrase for improving on any manufacturing process. Since coming to
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Might Is Right? By Jay Goodman In my last chapter, I spoke about my time at the Estelle Unit and some of the abuses of the elderly and the mistreatment of prisoners that were sick or dying, and now I want everyone to know that these were not isolated incidents. Similar abuses go on
