Texas Mexico Law

  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 […]

  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

  Crab Walking by Mike Powers To win an argument, a good debater will do his best to be the one who defines the terms of the debate. While it might be too easy to think that these articles are, in a tangible way, arguments for prison reform in Texas, please allow me to define

  Prison’s Regress By Mike Powers If you are reading this, you have probably learned enough history to know that, in other eras of history, a prisoner was guaranteed a piece of bread and some gruel along with a nice slab of stone or wood to lay his head down at night. If the prisoner’s

  Texas Outlaws By Jay Goodman Now that we’ve seen how prisons in Texas proliferated until there were over a hundred of them, and how the guards that the TDCJ hired in order to fill these prisons were either unable to do the work involved or began using their positions of authority as a springboard

  TDCJ Hell: The Estelle Unit By Jay Goodman So many things can happen inside a prison system. People in general I believe, have a mindset of what goes on in here. While some of this is true, I’m sure, it’s also true that almost no one who hasn’t been incarcerated has any real understanding

  To Our Elected Officials By Jay Goodman I can practically see, in my mind’s eye, the reaction of some of my fellow Texans as they read what I’m writing. “Oh, please!” they’ll be thinking. “You did the crime, now do the time, and stop your whining.” But, truth be told, my only obiective here

  Highway Robbery By Mike Powers One of the most distressing things I’ve learned about the prison system as I worked my way through this maze was how unapologetic the TDCJ is in its prolific profiteering from the misery of others. It’s not enough that one of its citizens has committed a crime and faces

  Compassion By Jay Goodman I have written about several things throughout my book that mean a lot to me. I have felt many different emotions that have made me wonder about life and the true meaning of family and friends. Some chapters I’ve written have made me very angry towards the individuals controlling the

  Texas Plays Monopoly By Jay Goodman As I go back to the 1990s and all of the madness the decade brought he TDCJ, I’m amazed at the masterfulness of the Puppet Masters. I’ve been working on my book, The Puppet Masters, for over ten years now, and I must admit there are times I