Texas Prisons Are More Inhumane Than Most
When the guys upstairs on Row Two and Three flush their waste, it leaks into the pipe chase, oozing into my cell from beneath the toilet. Raw sewage. Bacteria. Germs. I clean up many times per day.
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It’s A Proven No-Brainer: Educate Prisoners, Reduce Crime
The study also showed that the release of 1,000 prisoners who had earned bachelor degrees while in prison would save Texas $59,000,000 yearly.
Ten Ways To Fix Texas Prisons
1. Start looking at results. When prisoners are released and are successful and do not come back, see what is the same amongst them. Do not just write it as a statistic and stare at it. Act on it. Utilize the [...]
A Prison Writer On the Hundred Year Flood.
Texas has so many prisons its motto should be "The Gulag State" instead of The Lone Star State. After the 1990s decade of massive prison building, Texas' prison system grew from 27 units to 116 by 2000. The state lost 3 [...]
Texas Prisoners Take a Poll on Life in Prison
I polled 30 fellow prisoners with these 2 questions: a. “What’s the best thing that’s happened in prison?” b. “What’s the worst thing that’s happened in prison?”
I Help The Terminally Ill in Prison
Death stands in the path of all prisoners here with a chronic or terminal illness. It may step out of their way for a time, only to reappear a little later on.