V’s World By Jay Goodman I have seen the damage the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has caused every day. Everywhere around me I see the eyes of the men who have spent decades in isolation, or the men who survived the gang wars. I’ve seen men that were stabbed all over their bodies. Who […]
What Doesn’t Work by Mike Powers Do any of you reading these words own a business? Or do you, perhaps hire people from time to time to do work around your home? Any of you who do will probably easily understand what I’m about to talk about. I’m tired of people who don’t do their
Damaged Goods by Mike Powers Until now, I’ve avoided saying too much about the sex offender treatment program and its participants. This was mainly because I was trying to keep an open mind about the program itself, and I thought it best to get a reasonable amount of time in before I started drawing any
Anyone Seen My Bags? by Mike Powers On August 23 of this year, as my readers already know, I chained out to the Hightower Unit from the Diboll Unit. I had to come to the Hightower to attend my nine-month long sex offender treatment program. When I left Diboll, I took one “chain bag” with
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Prison Ways by Mike Powers From my earliest days of incarceration, I’ve been an insider to life behind bars. And while we all probably understand that there is no such thing as true “Reality TV”, the movies and the shows have depicted a pretty accurate picture of the idiosyncrasies and outright nutty ways that permeate
The Public Doesn’t Want Us To Have It By Jay Goodman I have heard over and over again, when it comes to us getting something in prison, how the public doesn’t want the prisoners to have it. I have listened to this debate through the years, and wondered if the people that say this are
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Freedom Isn’t Free by Mike Powers [Adapted from a presentation given to the Therapeutic Community on my wing here at the Hightower Unit by myself.] For years, British and American intelligence services and the troop divisions assigned to them had been working tirelessly to pull off the biggest bluff in the history of warfare since
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The Grievance System, Another Paper Work Failure By Jay Goodman One of the first things I wrote about was the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Grievance procedure. Of course, the Texas prison system never implemented the Grievance procedure on their own, hell they never implement nothing on their own that’s beneficial to the overall prison
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Got Sleep? By Mike Powers Since arriving on the Hightower Unit, I have observed, and been a victim of, the most systematic program of sleep deprivation in my almost 15 years of incarceration. After only several days here, I knew I needed to start documenting it, because it’s bad enough that I’m going to
Paradise Lost By Mike Powers The last time I wrote you, I was still basking in the air-conditioned comfort of the Diboll Unit, and I had many of the creature comforts you take for granted like an ability to enter and exit my “bedroom” at will, cable television I can actually watch/hear instead of
