Racism in Prison Goes Both Ways
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,…
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,…
Prison can be a scary place. Even scarier can be the IDEA of prison for someone who is facing it, especially if that someone has…
One of the most important lessons that prison has taught me about life and being alive really has very little to do with prison per…
The prison philosopher in me believes the solution to any given problem cannot be found within the problem itself, but must come from a greater…
In March of 2011 I received a letter informing me that my ex-wife, Adrianna, had died. She had been found on the bathroom floor of…
The prevalent philosophy today in criminology circles is that all crime is pathological, meaning that they who commit crimes aren’t acting upon a free, moral,…
Sometime during the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday, 06 September 2023, I was informed by a “nurse” that Texas had enacted an institutional lockdown in Texas…
Put to a nicety, Texas summers are ugly. They’re uglier in some regions of the state than others, but in their way just as ugly.…
Earlier this year (i.e. 2023) Texas finally got around to fully incorporating the prison tablets into its prisons. I have been reading about e-tablets being…
As you might think, prison has a multitude of rules. So many, in fact, that a person must virtually violate one rule in order to…
The green beans would usually spend the night there collecting various field mice, garter snakes, bugs and other critters. Sometimes we'd get a lucky surprise…
I stabbed a prison guard when I was at the Barrington Unit in 2014, located between Houston and Galveston, and got an additional 99 year…
The best thing about being in prison is getting out. To do that, an inmate has two options, aside from dying while inside. The…
To some extent, anything that Texas prisoners are permitted to read, possess, or receive through the mail has always been censored, if not denied…
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…
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