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Title: Cornering of the market by TDCJ
Author: Jalomos, Mary Ann
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): For many years our friends, family, and loved ones could purchase items from credited vendors and have them sent to us. Items such as writing paper, note books, journals, stationery, box cards, envelopes, etc. We could even purchase them by direct order with a payment from our Trust Fund Account. 7.1 TDCJ decided it wanted to curb what inmates could get and from whom. Now, we must buy paper, cards, envelopes etc, from the unit commissary. TDCJ made product from TDCJ ran print shops. Our famil...
PID: apw:12353098
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-26T10:56:49.827Z

Title: Dear Readers, Many of you guys wonder
Author: Magana, Maria Elena
Date: 2019-04-28
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): Dear Readers, Many of you wonder how the inside of a prison facility is. Maybe many of you guys have an idea. Which is made up of experiences from a male that was incarcerated. Only if you guys knew that our image of being able to smoke, inmates sticking together, food being good, and one thing above all of that is once you get out your time time given to you: you do it and get out. How wrong we were! Not only that it gets so much worse for a female inmate. My name is Maria Elena Magana and I...
PID: apw:12357958
Date Uploaded: 2019-10-28T20:38:40.408Z

Title: I am a female incarcerated
Author: Tammy
Pages: 4 pages
Text (TR_WF): Dear APWA, I am a female incarcerated at Logan Correctional Center (LCC). I am detain on a unit that they refer to as housing unit that is full of asbestos, lead, and mold. There is even a raccoon that is crapping and peeing in the attic that staff will not capture. Upon starting out there were 3 raccoons. 2 were captures by a trap. Yet the one left has been in the attic over 6 months. Even though several has grieved it nothing has been done. Some ladies even took it upon themself to literarl...
PID: apw:12352489
Date Uploaded: 2018-06-15T19:45:37.962Z

Title: Texas is an institutionalized industry
Author: Jalomos, Mary Ann
Date: 2017-10-12
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): No Title 10/12/17 Texas is an institutionalized industry. I have been here since 1999. Arrested 2-11-98, hit TDCJ 6/99. Going on 20 flat, next year. I am not innocent, I agree that I should have gotten time for my part in my crime. I do not agree with the amount of time I received. 99 yrs. A hard life, abuse galore. Physical, emotional and mental. I believe if I had recevied the psychological help I needed I may not have been in the position I was, when I did what I did. That's long past...
PID: apw:12349894
Date Uploaded: 2018-03-15T21:23:31.105Z

Title: The dreary weapon
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Pages: 13 pages
Text (TR_WF): The Dreary Weapon It was the morning of August 14, 1998 the beginning of starting my life sentence in jail. Oh my God it was a rough night. I laid under my blanket all night crying. I would just mumble slightly under my breath, I don't even know what happened to my son. I would like to know, Lord. Show me, Lord I would pray. Next thing I hear count time and wake up at 5:00 am. We had to stand beside our beds as the jailers counted us. After they counted us we remained up. Getting ready f...
PID: apw:12346618
Date Uploaded: 2017-08-16T00:32:32.701Z

Title: Unfit adolescent
Author: Brown, Tasha
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): Unfit Adolescent My name is Tasha and I am an adolescent offender. Let us examine the word adolescent shall we? An adolescent is one undergoing adolescence; a period of immaturity, a person who has undergone puberty but not reached maturity: a teenager. An adolescent cannot: purchase alcohol, consent to sex, rent a hotel room, purchase cigarettes, sign a legally binding contract, vote, or gamble; at is I couldn't even obtain a California ID or driver's license, however, I could be t...
PID: apw:12363209
Date Uploaded: 2021-06-10T15:44:11.968Z

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