When Does It End By Jay Goodman As I have sat here the last 15 years and looked at the insanity of the Texas prison system, I have asked myself thousands of times when does it end? I am not talking about prison in general, because there will always be a need for […]
Great Escape For Juan By Jay Goodman I’ve written a few chapters called great escape, where I made fun at some crazy moments in my life. These moments were not funny at the time because I should have been killed, or sent to prison for a very long time. But somehow, I did
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Hope By Jay Goodman From my personal experience the last thing the Texas prison wants to give someone is hope. They talk a good game when they speak about rehabilitation, but if anyone ever did a study of the Texas presence from the start up until now, they would see that not much
What Good Is Prison If It’s Not A Place For Rehabilitation By Jay Goodman Many times I have wondered how anyone can come out of the Texas prison system and not have some type of sociological damage. I do get that present is supposed to change us, but one would assume that it
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HATE By Jay Goodman Inside the Texas prison system “all of your senses are assaulted here, especially your sense of justice.” I can’t imagine a better description of my time here. From the moment I got off the bus in Huntsville I was surrounded by hate. Not just a normal dislike from the
Untitled-346 by Jay Goodman Something that has amaze me during the last 18 years of my incarceration is how the men around me, except this time without a care in the world. Don’t get me wrong, they don’t like prison. But over time they become complacent with everything around them. They get up every day
Untitled-345 by Jay Goodman I’ve been talking about what would everyone do if we were given a second chance? In my last few chapters, I have written about the effects of prison, life, and how it needs to be revamped. Without a doubt, if big changes don’t happen crime in the United States will get
Untitled-344 by Jay Goodman In my last chapter, I talked about the people in here, having a second opportunity at life. Most of the people in here now have been arrested more than once, and I believe most have been to prison before. Like I said, in the last chapter, “the federal bureau of prisons
Untitled-343 by Jay Goodman And I look around me in prison and wonder at times what with some of my fellow prisoners do if they were given a second chance at life? Sadly, if the federal bureau of prisons were to release all of its prisoners today, without a doubt, I’d say 90% of them
Nothing Is Impossible by Jay Goodman I have often wondered what has to happen in someone’s life for them to see that anything can be accomplished. I was having a conversation with a friend of mine yesterday about something that I believe could be done. Why even I can admit what I was talking to
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