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.
After sitting in the Ohio reception center for two months waiting to see the parole board for my violation, I was finally going to have a hearing. It had been a slow two months because I had been sitt...
Even though I was finally out of the Texas prison system and on my way to an Ohio prison to face a parole violation from the 1980s, I must admit all that I had seen and went through was still weighing...
Well after 15 years and three months I finally had an out date to leave prison. When I first arrived here at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas, I was supposed to leave the next day....
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’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 ...
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,...
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 i...
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 ...
Has anyone ever thought about where our country would be today without drugs? In my last two chapters I talked a lot about how things used to be before the industry age. And explained why I thought th...
My life of crime began when I was just a pup, and it sparked at the intersection of two tendencies I’ve shown since before I could remember. First, I was a born wander....
All through my life I have heard my great grandfather, my grandfather, then my mom and dad say, “times are changing.” In the past, I never gave this much thought. But now that I am 56, I finally u...
