Letters From Inside the Prison

It’s Time to Stand and Defend Our Constitutional Rights By Jay Goodman I have fifteen years of incarceration now inside the Texas prison system and as much as I dislike the system itself, I have given much thought as to why a place like this can keep thriving. At the beginning of this book I […]

Texas Attorneys So Ready To Convict for A Win on The Innocent By Jay Goodman The last fifteen years of my incarceration has been an eye-opening experience for me. I must admit that if I hadn’t seen personally everything I’ve written about, I would have found it hard to believe. I still, after all of

Monopoly Part III By Jay Goodman Let me start this chapter with a quick note. What I am about to tell you is not about the Board Game, but about the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Monopoly on the Commissary Services. I was told that the Texas prisons made 78.2 million dollars from its Commissary

House Bill 3391 A Free Pass for The Selected Few By Jay Goodman Let’s start this chapter with a little-known law that was passed by the Texas legislature called, (House Bill) HB3391, authorizing the creation of the nation’s First Public Safety Employees treatment courts. The courts will allow police, firefighters, prison and jail guards, and

Mail-less Call By Mike Powers In the 1980’s, a lawsuit brought by a man named Guadalajara resulted in the U.S. District Court helping the TDCJ to figure out its mail system about the same time that a fellow named Ruiz was helping them figure out just about everything else. And, as you’ve become aware, since

The Injustice of an Innocent Man for 26 Years By Jay Goodman The more I understand the law in Texas, the more I’m shocked that no one tries to push for change. I am assuming the reason the men and women who have gotten involved with the law was because they wanted to help protect

A Senseless Act of Violence on an Elderly Inmate By Jay Goodman Here we are less than a month away until 2020, but it might as well be 1920, inside the Texas prison system. Most prison systems around the country have moved into the 20th century as far as the living conditions, and the overall

Unit Craft Shops, Are Illegal Sweat Shops By Jay Goodman Throughout my book I have written about the abundance of stealing that goes on inside the Texas prison system, but there’s another type of stealing that has been going on forever and that I want to bring to light. At every prison there is what

The Joys of Parole By Mike Powers My readers recognize that even though I try to inject humor and optimism into most of my stories, the majority of them contain element s that are, at best, discouraging. Why? Because I believe we all want to think that our government works at a certain standard, particularly

The Real Criminals By Jay Goodman Throughout my fourteen plus years of incarceration in the Texas prison system, I am still at a loss for words over the prison system and the complete disregard they have for any or anyone. I am not just talking about the prisoners, but for its employees to. In my