Letters From Inside the Prison

  ONE-LEGGED MAN IN AN ASS-KICKING CONTEST By Kris Russell Last time, I started telling my story in hopes that I could keep others from following in my footsteps. I’d like to pick up where I left off last time, because it was kind of a cliff-hanger. If you remember, I’d left my beautiful family […]

  CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG I know what you all have seen in the movies about how inmates and officers get along. The relationships vary from the Green Mile to Alcatraz and everything in between, and as far as that goes, with a lot less drama, that’s pretty much the way things really

  THE WAR ON TERRELL I’d like to take you into the 1990’s now, showing you some of the things that occurred in the Texas prison system. Not much had really changed from the chaos of the 80’s except that the TDCJ was finally taking steps to lock up the gang leaders in seg, but

  INMATES FLAMBE Before I continue on through the 1990s and the Puppetmasters, I want to talk about another issue that has plagued the men and women inside the Texas prison system- the heat. It’s been an issue that most people in our whole country have heard of. I have family in Cincinnati and New

  Whiling Away the Hours A lot of the people who have maintained contact with me since I first came to prison over a dozen years ago have asked me the question, “What do you do with your time in there?” And this is a great question. In pointing out the many faults.of the TDCJ

  Sir. Yes, Sir! As we move along into the 1990s, it seems like the whole prison system was in total chaos. What in the hell am 1 saying. The prison system in Texas has always been in total chaos. In niy chapter, “Making a Warzone,” I spoke of a man named Don Eastman, who’s

  Starving to control It shouldn’t surprise me, or the people who have been reading some of these chapters the kind of crap they can come up with to screw over the prisoners. It’s crazy the the lengths they will go to and the absolutely ridiculous ideas they implement. Anyone with half a brain would

  21st Century Scarlett Letter When I was kid growing up out in Odessa, Texas, The Scarlet Letter was required reading. The premise of the story is that it was wrong for the Puritan society of early America to heap scorn upon the story’s protagonist/adultress by forcing her to wear a scarlet “A” on her

  Troubling Deeds I’d like to tell you about some things in here that can get you in real trouble, and things I see all the time that the officers here don’t seem to care about at all. To be honest, I think some of them will surprise you, because, if you think about these

  Slopping The Hogs (Part II) I’d like to tell you more about what is happening in the Texas prison chow halls, because if there’s one place that a lot of taxpayer money is being outright stolen, or at least badly wasted, it’s in the prison kitchens. There is a game that’s being played out