What Kind of Prisoners Does Society Want Leaving? by Jay Goodman I have been through a lot in my life, there are times I don’t even know how I’m still alive. It’s important to me that the people who read this understand I am not looking for sympathy, but empathy. The 17 years in prison […]
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The Predators in Gray and Blue By Jay Goodman In the past it has been my experience over the years to relate as much knowledge to the younger prisoners that are coming into prison for the first time. When I first rolled up to prison many years ago, your old vets were either
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Boozin’ For a Bruisin’ By Jay Goodman Sitting here in this prison system at times I don’t know who I get most frustrated with, the inmates or the people running this insane asylum. I am a firm believer in rehabilitation, but there are a lot of my fellow prisoners who do not want to
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Grand Hustle #2 By Jay Goodman In my last chapter I wrote about how Lowrence Bernal was arrested for Capital Murder, and of all of the insanity that led to the date of November 17, 2000. The first day of the trial. Here again in his own words is the details of that trial. My
IT’S ALL ABOUT ME by Jay Goodman I have always wondered if prisoners have ever taken a serious look at their past? I mean one thing is for sure, everyone in here has a past. Most criminals didn’t just wake up one day and decide to break the law. But throughout my time I have
Hope By Jay Goodman After 15 plus years inside the Texas prison system I looked at all the different prisons I went through and have wondered how can anyone say this is a place of rehabilitation? Many times, I’ve looked out of my cell door at all of the different races sitting around the day
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The Cost By Jay Goodman Has anyone ever noticed that anything worthwhile in life Hass to cost you? If it doesn’t, your life to question its value. I would like everyone who is reading this to stop for a moment and look at what you’re doing in your lives. Whatever it is you’re doing ask
Modern Day Slavery 3 By Jay Goodman Here we are way into the 21st century 2019, and Texas is not any closer to bringing their system to modern times than North Korea is in becoming part of the United States. Truth be told, they do not want to bring their prison system into the modern age.
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Conquer A lot of prisoners have the most difficult time with the smallest of things. For all of the people reading this that are incarcerated I want you to think very seriously about this question, when was the last time you conquered something in your life? I want everyone to take a long look at
Untitled-307 As I’ve sat in prison the last seventeen years, I have really done a lot of self-reflection. Sometimes I have laughed and other times I’ve shaken my head in disbelief at my past. I have learned it’s only through self-reflection that we can learn from our mistakes and hopefully grow into a better human
