“Anyone�? Can Be a Prison Guard, in Texas By Jay Goodman Here we are at the end of 2019, and the Texas prison system is no closer to changing its flawed system, than the Iranians are in becoming a Christian country. If anyone with common sense looked at each prison, they would laugh at the […]
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Summary of the Fred Cruz Story:: “Texas�? a State Without a Conscience By Jay Goodman As I reflect over the last four chapters I just finished writing about Fred Cruz, and his attorney Frances Jalet, my mind races with many different emotions. I look at what the Texas prison system put these two people through,
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One Bad Apple, Should Not Change the Rules for Everyone By Jay Goodman You will hear this a lot in the Texas prison system, one bad apple spoils it for everyone. There have been too many guards and ranking officers say this when asked, why we are not allowed to do or have something. It’s
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Self-exploration Begins by Mike Powers Finally, the moment has arrived. The pinnacle of the whole experience, the purpose of my incarceration, the long-delayed day of reckoning. I have begun my sex offender treatment program. My only regret is that I wasn’t in it 16 years ago before I had an underage victim and a fat
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The Right to Rec By Mike Powers I arrived on the Hightower Unit on August 26th. As I write this, the date is October 13th. That’s almost two months. Out of all of those days, I’ve been able to go to rec one time. ONE time. And that is taking every opportunity to do so.
Running Rampant And Way Out Of Control At The Stiles Unit By Jay Goodman I have shown over and over the insanity of the Texas prison system, and their complete disregard for our safety or rehabilitation. I know better than anyone, never say, I thought I’d seen it all, when it comes to these Texas
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Shedding The Pounds By Mike Powers Over a period of several weeks last spring, God began speaking to my heart about taking better care of myself physically. After losing my parents, I practiced in spades a lifelong habit of being an emotional eater. Not only that, but my history of struggle with losing weight is
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The Insane Cycle That Never Stops in Tdcj By Jay Goodman It’s amazing to see how far other states have grown compared to Texas, when it comes to rehabilitation and the treatment of their prisoners. You would also imagine that the people running our state would see the success other states have had and would
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Working Six to Five By Mike Powers With the exception of a few short months after surgeries and the time I spent on the Diboll Unit, I’ve always been assigned a job. Technically, this is necessary if the TDCJ is going to fulfill the law of the land, because it is legislated that every TDCJ
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What Is It Going To Take To Fix TDCJ By Jay Goodman Throughout my book I have written about the complete disrespect the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has for the federal law. To Texas they could care less what the federal courts tell them. I have shown over and over how they will basically
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