Letters From Inside the Prison

Can We Get Some Help Here? by Mike Powers The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is in some deep trouble, and what’s new about that, right? But the kind of trouble I’m talking about could shut this place down without a federal judge ever having to lift a finger. The state prison system is imploding […]

Ironic or Hypocritical? by Mike Powers I sincerely hope that you never have to take a Sex Offender Rehabilitation Program, because, well…for all of the obvious reasons, not the least of which being I don’t want to see any more innocent victims of a terrible crime. In the event that you DO, however, you will

Stealing the Food of Inmates, How Much Lower Can You Get By Jay Goodman There has to be drastic changes made at times to get things back in order. I have talked a lot lately about how the Puppetmasters have infiltrated all of the different departments inside the Texas prison system for their own ill-gotten

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

Being Innocent Doesn’t Mean A Thing, when You’re Lowrence Bernal By Jay Goodman Once again, I was talking with my friend Lowrence Bernal, whom I just finished telling a story about. And as always, he will find himself in the damnedest of situations. Bernal is a good friend of mine, not many people like Bernal,

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

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