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.
How I wound up on what must be the only county club prison in Texas is beyond my pay-grade, but there can be no question that I am inexpressibly grateful. Is it possible that some bureaucrat has been ...
As the brutal 70’s ended and the deadly 8O’s and 90’s took over with so many killings in the prison system, being incarcerated was like living in a warzone. During all of this mayhem, the Puppet...
There is a saying that I have heard throughout my life, “Everybody has a story,” which is very true. I have traveled much in my life and have had the opportunity to meet many people, so I do kn...
I have written about several things throughout my book that mean alot to me. I have felt many different emotions that have made me wonder about life and the true meaning of family and friends. Some ch...
I have wondered many times why so many people in life don’t want to make a positive change in themselves. I look at all the people around me in prison and sometimes I am in awe at the complete disre...
It was a little past 10:30 at night on Thursday, July 26, 2018. I’d been incarcerated now 4,561 days. On October 6th, it’ll be an even 13 years - Over 85% of my fifteen year sentence. I surely was...
In my writings, I’ve talked about how the Puppet Masters have used their power to manipulate, control, and abuse the prisoners and use us as their personal slaves. Now, however, I want to show every...
I sit in my cell and look at the TDCJ’s history of total disrespect for anyone under their care, and as I have written in my past chapters, it’s not just us, the prisoners. It is also our families...
my only obiective here is to give you guys out there in the free world the real view of what’s going on in here instead of the 5 o’clock news TDCJ sound bite version of lollipops and rainbows. ...
One of the most distressing things I’ve learned about the prison system as I worked my way through this maze was how unapologetic the TDCJ is in its prolific profiteering from the misery of other...
Now that we’ve see how prisons in Texas proliferated until there were over a hundred of them, and how the guards that the TDCJ hired in order to fill these prisons were either unable to do the work ...
As I go back to the 1990s and all of the madness the decade brought he TDCJ, I’m amazed at the masterfulness of the Puppet Masters. I must admit there are times I am in disbelief over what I’ve se...
