When someone goes to prison, we don't expect it to be like attending a country club. The media often paints famous prisons like a stay at summer camp. The truth is that Texas prisons are FAR from any vacation. In fact, they are a business established to keep people in as long a possible and consider it a victory when someone returns.
These letters are written by those who have first-hand experience as a prisoner to the atrocities going on each day. They tell of inhumane treatment by those in charge to people that were entrusted to ensure basic rights as a human.
The Texas prison system will say whatever is needed, to make everyone believe they are on the same page as the rest of the country when it comes to rehabilitation....
There is a law that says that the parole board cannot penalize an inmate who has filed a civil suit or other legal writs, like habeas corpus, against the prison system....
After 14 years in prison and being moved around from prison to prison, it’s easy to see that there is nothing on most wardens’ minds except, abusing their position in every way possible. Every now...
Please, see this place for exactly what it is, and start making the necessary changes in your lives, to break the cycle that will keep you in here until you die. If you change your thinking, you will ...
the institution passes pointless rules, the officers refuse to enforce pointless rules, and the inmates, as is the human condition, push the boundaries of what rules are to be pointless to the greates...
No matter how bad it may look on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, no matter who has to get arrested, no matter what has to happen it’s beyond time to stop these criminals that have run thes...
I am hopeful my beloved music teacher,Mrs. Jennings didn’t survive to see me come to prison, she would have been very disappointed. But I think I’ve finally given her something to smile about from...
Remember the only way to make serious changes is to write large amounts of grievances at the same time. Stop complaining about things, stop wasting your time in this place on things that will not bene...
If anything like this has happened to your incarcerated loved one, don’t stop at the complaint process. You are not alone in your battle against a system that seems to care less about how you feel, ...
