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.
Over and over again, I've been completely stymied by how or why the TDCJ arid friends, including UTMB, do the things they do, especially in regards to medical care....
In most or all games, the players are expected to know the rules and abide by them. If they don’t there are penalties and consequences. Unlike most games, however, in the game of prison the rules ch...
A modern-day version of the Chinese water torture is alive and well in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. How, you might ask? Oh, let me count the ways....
If you put the two prison sayings together "What you just said is the absolute truth." & "Believe nothing you here, and only half of what you see.", you can see that a lot of us in here are pretty ske...
One of the volunteers who comes to the Diboll Unit to minister is a woman who is still on parole from a life sentence. something she said the other day really made me think about how blessed I've bee...
Since coming to this privately-run Texas prison, I’ve learned that MTC has built the better mousetrap when it comes to incarceration. And no, I’m not on their salesforce....
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 they have admitted to 23 prisoner deaths d...
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 t...
In an article from C.U.R.E. (Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants) they advocated for the repeal of the 13th Amendment, not because he endorsed the next round of slavery, but because it a...
