Letters From Inside the Prison

Where Is the Rehabilitation by Jay Goodman After 16 years now of incarceration, I continue to ask myself how a prison system like the ones I’ve been to can exist in the United States of America? Without a doubt our country is a great place to live. We have accomplished so many things that if […]

Criminals With Immunity by Jay Goodman As the weeks past it was hard for me to believe the same type of corruption was happening in the federal detention as I have seen the last 15 years in a Texas prison system. The drugs, overdoses, fights, stabbings, and nothing at all being done about it. It’s

Corruption Inside the Feds by Jay Goodman As the weeks passed by, I was learning more and more about how corrupt this first federal detention center was. I have wondered many times how this type of corruption can continue to exist not only in the state prisons like I’ve written about for years in Texas,

Private Run Prison by Jay Goodman In my last few chapters, I’ve written about my transfer from state prison into federal prison system. I’ve talked a lot about my hopes that this system would be a step up from the madness I just left in Texas. But as I have said in my last chapter

Here We Go Again by Jay Goodman In the federal detention in Youngstown Ohio, at first, I must admit was a breath of fresh air compared to the 15 1/2 years I didn’t Texas, or the five months I just served in the Ohio state prison for parole violation. But that would quickly change. As

Federal Corruption by Jay Goodman For years I’ve written about all the corruption I’ve witnessed inside the Texas prison system. It’s crazy looking back now because I realize that I went to more than 10 prisons and every single one was correct. There’s not one that I went to that I did not see corruption

Moving Into Federal Prison by Jay Goodman After I arrive at the federal detention center in Youngstown, Ohio, I was put into quarantine for 15 days. Right away I noticed their quarantine was nothing like the one I’ve been in Texas, or in state prison in Ohio. Both Texas and Ohio took this COVID-19 opportunity

The Only Way Is Legally by Jay Goodman After sitting in the Ohio reception center for two months waiting to see the parole board for my violation, I was finally going to have a hearing. It had been a slow two months because I had been sitting in a cell 23 hours a day, but

New Prison System by Jay Goodman Even though I was finally out of the Texas prison system and on my way to an Ohio prison to face a parole violation from the 1980s, I must admit all that I had seen and went through was still weighing on me. No one can leave the Texas

Finally Leaving TDCJ by Jay Goodman Well after 15 years and three months I finally had an out date to leave prison. When I first arrived here at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas, I was supposed to leave the next day. But due to the confusion over moving into federal custody or going to