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.
As I’ve sat in prison the last seventeen years, I have really done a lot of self-reflection. Sometimes I have laughed and other times I’ve shaken my head in disbelief at my past. I have le...
In my last few chapters, I have been talking about the abuse and all of the madness that goes on here at the United States penitentiary, and at the federal correctional institution in Hazelton West, V...
I cannot even begin to tell everyone reading this how many times I have heard people in prison say this phrase, “I am a grown ass man.”, without any exaggeration, I have heard this phrase at eve...
I wonder why there hasn’t been more done in our country to put a complete stop to America’s gang problem. I really have thought about this and for the life of me, I cannot understand their inab...
In this chapter I want to talk about what has happened across our country because our government’s lack of intervention in eradicating the gang problem that has plagued our country. I was wondering ...
When I look at all the United States has accomplished throughout its history, it’s amazing at how far we’ve come. I mean this county is only two hundred and forty something years old, we’ve been...
What’s really amazed me through the years is how our government has done little or nothing to combat the gang problem that’s plagued America. I mean there has always been gangs as far back as I ...
In my last chapter, I explained how some of the different gangs got started. Now, I want to continue explaining how they grew and expanded their gang. Like I said, they began by training men to leav...
I’ve just finished s chapter called State of the Art Prison System, and as I was writing this, I couldn’t help but think of several different things....
When I talk about state-of-the-art prisons, I am not trying to insinuate that prisons should be ran or operate in such a way that we are in here living it up....
