Texas Mexico Law

  A Stevenson First I am at the Stevenson Unit my first day, and I get off the bus, and I notice right away that it’s really clean down here. Of course, we have to strip out again, but by now, I’m used to this. Then, we go and wait in the cage at the […]

  All This Stuff Although I lost everything I owned when I came to prison, I immediately began to accumulate more stuff- the meager bit of personal property that the TDCJ will allow me to have now that I’m incarcerated. The first, and most valuable of these items is my personal Bible. Over the dozen

  Justice Is As Justice Does Eventually, I’m going to continue with my history of the problems the TDCJ has in keeping its “treatment industrial complex” running, but first I wanted to bring up a few things that have meant a lot to me, like my chapters on executing the innocent and super seg. There’s

  Have Your Cake And Eat It Too I’d written a few chapters ago about our medical department and a nurse that works here, but I also wanted to show how the Texas prison system will steal from the taxpayers. The depth of their heartlessness will surprise you, although it comes as no shock to

  The Dirty Darrington II I wish I could have confined the shortcomings of the Dirty Darrington to just one chapter. Alas, it’ll take at least two. We saw last time that laundry, food service, housing, and transportation were utterly inept. Now I’d like to focus my attention on the one thing that, any reasonable

  Stevensons Little Shop Of Horrors It used to be that one consoling statement you might hear a condemned prisoner utter as he was cuffed by the bailiff to begin his sentence would be, “Well, at least I can get my teeth fixed.” This was because it was well-known, to those with any kind of

  The Dirty Darrington I’ve been promising to write for some time about the way-station all the inmates in this region of the TDCJ must pass through when either coming or going to Huntsville or, more importantly, the hospital at Galveston. If this trip only had to be made for intake and discharge or in

  Ten Til Forever The vistation room in a penitentiary doesn’t follow the same laws of time as the rest of the universe. A two-hour visit passes in the same amount of time as a commercial break on the television, which can be maddening. But, the last ten minutes of the visit can be just

  Sergeant Garcia Screws Up Your Life My buddy Jay wanted me to tell you all about my first case, and I’ve been wanting to do that for a while, anyway. I hope it gives you a better understanding of how the internal “justice” department of the Texas Department of Criminal injustice works, and how

  Make Big Bucks In The TDCJ In my last chapter, I wrote about how the Puppetmasters didn’t take into account where they were going to find all the guards they would need to fill over one hundred prisons. And to this very day, they are still struggling to fill all of these prisons. The