Letters From Inside the Prison

  Stevensons Little Shop Of Horrors It used to be that one consoling statement you might hear a condemned prisoner utter as he was cuffed by the bailiff to begin his sentence would be, “Well, at least I can get my teeth fixed.” This was because it was well-known, to those with any kind of […]

  The Dirty Darrington I’ve been promising to write for some time about the way-station all the inmates in this region of the TDCJ must pass through when either coming or going to Huntsville or, more importantly, the hospital at Galveston. If this trip only had to be made for intake and discharge or in

  Ten Til Forever The vistation room in a penitentiary doesn’t follow the same laws of time as the rest of the universe. A two-hour visit passes in the same amount of time as a commercial break on the television, which can be maddening. But, the last ten minutes of the visit can be just

  Sergeant Garcia Screws Up Your Life My buddy Jay wanted me to tell you all about my first case, and I’ve been wanting to do that for a while, anyway. I hope it gives you a better understanding of how the internal “justice” department of the Texas Department of Criminal injustice works, and how

  Make Big Bucks In The TDCJ In my last chapter, I wrote about how the Puppetmasters didn’t take into account where they were going to find all the guards they would need to fill over one hundred prisons. And to this very day, they are still struggling to fill all of these prisons. The

  Kangaroo Court In the Texas prison system, if an inmate breaks a prison rule of some type, no matter how small or how big their infraction my be, the prisoner will recieve what is called a disciplinary report. Neither the inmates nor the staff use this fancy verbage, however. We just call it a

  Gainful Employment As the 1990s came to an end, it seemed like the Puppetmasters had set their criminal empire up to be pretty much untouchable. Almost all of the hardcore gang members are sitting in super segregations. Over one hundred prisons with industries are up and running, and they are making hundreds of millions

  Voluntary Change Several times, you’ve read my words that if any genuine and long-lasting change is going to take place in a person’s life when they are incarcerated, it is going to be a self- initiated program of rehabilitation that will achieve it.This change might start ;(and had best start) with a change of

  Continuing Education In my last chapter, I wanted to give everyone a different view of the men and women in the Texas prison system. I want everyone to understand that there is so much raw talent inside these Texas prisons, it’s unbelievable. And if there was more focus on rehabilitation than trying to control

  You Can Make Changes By Jay Goodman I have wondered many times why so many people in life don’t want to make a positive change in themselves. I look at all the people around me in prison and sometimes I am in awe at the complete disregard to authority a lot of prisoners have.