Ruiz’s Achilles Heel By Jay Goodman As much as I admire and appreciate the amazing things that David Ruiz accomplished for Texas inmates, the settlement that was eventually agreed to by both the class-action litigants and the old Texas Department of Corrections had a weakness that ultimately caused it to fail as an agent […]
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Free Darlie By Mike Powers If you’ve spent any time in jail at all and have any social skills whatsoever, it’s likely that you have heard it all. Moreover, there’s an old prison adage that is remarkably true, even if quite cynical, “Believe nothing that you hear and half of what you see.” This
Real Talk By Mike Powers There’s an expression we use in here, prison slang, that means,”What you just said is the absolute truth.” The phrase is “real talk”. Perhaps you’ll remember the other expression I’ve told you about before, “Believe nothing you here, and only half of what you see.” If you put these
Trifles By Mike Powers Chinese water torture. Just the sound of it send shivers down the spine, and this exquisite torture is actually of a very simple nature mechanically speaking. It consists of a single drop of water falling onto the same exact spot on the body over and over again. It doesn’t sound
The Quota System By Jay Goodman Now that I’ve taken my readers all the way through the 2000s showing the corruption and abuses in the Texas prison system, I want to turn our attention to how the Puppetmasters always seem to come up with new forms of punishment. I’d also like to show you
Lost in a Fantasy World By Jay Goodman While sitting here in prison I try very hard to look at things from both sides. I take the CO’s perspective as well as the inmates. When I finally decided to make a positve change in my life, I spent hours and hours contemplating what
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How Far Would You Go? By Jay Goodman Every time I gaze around here in the penitentiary and observe all of the individuals walking about, I wonder what it is going to take for these people to see that this is not a game. I just wrote a chapter titled “Lost in a fantasy
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A Little Ranting By Jay Goodman In this present year of 2019 the Texas prison system is ran so backwards that anyone with half a mind can see that this system is completely flawed and is designed to set its inmates up for failure. Simply put, very few people will ever get the help
Modern Day Slavery 2 By Jay Goodman Sitting here talking to old convicts who have done time since the 1980’s, all say the same thing. When the Feds stepped in, it was a time that meant something. Because the state of Texas made a deal with David Ruiz. Prisoners that behaved themselves and did
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Modern Day Slavery Inside the Texas Prison System By Jay Goodman Under the Texas government code, acts 1991, 72nd Leg.ch.l6, §10.01(a) renumbered former chapter 496 as chapter 497, and amended the chapter heading © 2012 Vernon’s Texas code annotated. I will be discussing how slave labor is allowed in Texas under the guise of
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