Contributing Writer
I have been in prison in Texas for 22 calendar years on a double life sentence and change for various high crimes and misdemeanors. I am from Houston, Texas.
If you’d like to write J.S. Slaymaker, please write to:
J.S. Slaymaker #634548
Hughes Unit
Route 2 Box 4400
Gatesville, Texas 76597
About a week after Thanksgiving of 2004, I stabbed a prison guard when I was at the Barrington Unit, located between Houston and Galveston, and got an additional 99 year sentence for that assault. I spent the next fifteen [...]
The best thing about being in prison is getting out. To do that, an inmate has two options, aside from dying while inside. The first is to serve it out in full, day for day. The second is get out [...]
Like many other communities, prison is largely self-segregated. Considering the psychodynamics within, this is not unexpected. One of the biggest surprises of prison life, however, is that so many on the inside are neither the racists they claim for themselves nor [...]
To some extent, anything that Texas prisoners are permitted to read, possess, or receive through the mail has always been censored, if not denied outright. Books like “The Anarchist’s Cookbook,” which provides detailed instructions in bomb making, drug manufacturing and [...]
Over the past twenty-two years I have had both the privilege and the burden to play witness to some righteously weird shit: guys cutting off fingers or breaking bones in order to avoid doing field work; having otherwise healthy teeth [...]