Diboll Does It Better By Mike Powers How I wound up on what must be the only county club prison in Texas is beyond my pay-grade, but there can be no question that I am inexpressibly grateful for it. And believe me, I’ve run through the possibilities. There’s even a conspiracy theory angle on […]
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Power By Jay Goodman It’s crazy the way power goes to people’s heads. Throughout history, we’ve seen it in different forms and in places we might never imagine. We’ve seen it with rulers of large countries such as Russia and Germany. And it’s evident in the tiniest of nations. Look at what Fidel Castro
Respite By Jay Goodman Due to all of the deaths over the heat in the Texas prison system, T.D.C.J. has been under fire for allowing inmates to be severely tortured to death. So far the Puppet Masters controlling this prison system have admitted to 23 prisoner deaths due to heat-related causes since 1998. A
The Beginning Of The End By Mike Powers It was a little past 10:30 at night on Thursday, July 26, 2018. I’d been incarcerated now four thousand five hundred sixty-one days. On October 6th, it’ll be an even 13 years – Over 85% of my fifteen-year sentence, for which I was eligible and qualified
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Not Sent to Prison to Die By Jay Goodman I want to talk about several things in this chapter that mean a lot to me and every prisoner serving time in T.D.C.J. I have thought a lot about how I can describe the situation that I am wanting to talk about. The best idea
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Bright, Shiny Ideas How many times in your life have you seen a cartoon about a better mousetrap? It’s probably hundreds if not thousands, right? It’s so common to the American experience and entrepreneurial spirit that “building a better mousetrap” has become the idiomatic phrase for improving on any manufacturing process. Since coming to
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Might Is Right? By Jay Goodman In my last chapter, I spoke about my time at the Estelle Unit and some of the abuses of the elderly and the mistreatment of prisoners that were sick or dying, and now I want everyone to know that these were not isolated incidents. Similar abuses go on
Crab Walking by Mike Powers To win an argument, a good debater will do his best to be the one who defines the terms of the debate. While it might be too easy to think that these articles are, in a tangible way, arguments for prison reform in Texas, please allow me to define
Prison’s Regress By Mike Powers If you are reading this, you have probably learned enough history to know that, in other eras of history, a prisoner was guaranteed a piece of bread and some gruel along with a nice slab of stone or wood to lay his head down at night. If the prisoner’s
Texas Outlaws By Jay Goodman Now that we’ve seen how prisons in Texas proliferated until there were over a hundred of them, and how the guards that the TDCJ hired in order to fill these prisons were either unable to do the work involved or began using their positions of authority as a springboard
