Letters From Inside the Prison

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

Another Senseless Death Inside an Insane Prison System By Jay Goodman There are so many things inside a prison that cause trouble each day, most of it are senseless bullshit you would expect grown men to deal with in a civilized manner. But, because of many different circumstances, very small things can lead to a

Surviving Another Deadly Summer in the Death House By Jay Goodman Here it is August of 2019, I am literally cooking in my oven, that the Texas prison system calls a cell. We call these cells, the “Death House�?. Because since 1998, until 2014, when a lawsuit was brought by prisoners at the Pack Unit,

In Gratitued to Mr. Francisco Hernandez By Jay Goodman Every now and again, we meet someone in life that we are proud to call friend. And sometimes, that friend will come out of nowhere. Meaning, you really don’t even know or understand how this person came into your life to begin with? Coming to prison