Cassandra tells her story below. Please share with anyone you know who has a loved one in TDCJ. ♥ Send some love Cassandra's way in the comments. ♥ GIVE YOURSELF THE CHANCE TO SAY GOODBYE. [My experience happened in the Texas state prison system.] ASK YOUR LOVED ONE...
We are beginning to hear from prisoners housed in Gulf Correctional Institution in the direct path of Hurricane Michael at the time it hit. They were not evacuated until days later. Below is a letter from one of them: The hurricane was pretty crazy, at first I didn't...
I read this book through two times. I enjoyed it so well that I developed an eight-week curriculum from this book, and as the Vice President of the NAACP here at Madison Correctional Institution, am in the process of preparing a proposal to purchase enough copies of...
Greetings from AI! If you're like us, 2018 is speeding by - how is it already fourth quarter? We haven't checked in with you in some time, and wanted to send a quick update about what's been going on behind the scenes, and what's coming up. News ♦ We recently...
The Texas Observer reports on a compelling exhibit at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) titled Walls Turned Sideways. "Named after an epigram by Angela Davis — 'Walls turned sideways are bridges' — the show includes the work of 42 artists and artist...
Please sign and share this petition Stop Taking Our Family Visitation Time Away For news updates about the issue, check here at The Forgotten Majority.
See the post that launched this series here. We receive returned mail almost daily, refused due to various mail violations. Postage is one of our biggest expenses, so because postcards stamps are cheaper than regular first class stamps, we have an assortment of...
I get calls from inmates all over the country, all day long. Many of them are collect calls, and as much as I wish I could, I can't accept them - we've no budget for it. Each state's prison phone system has its particular recording, typically announcing whether it is...
We're thrilled to congratulate our friend Martin Lockett on the publication of his second book, My Prison Life: A Blogger's Insights from the Inside. I was honored to write the foreword, and so grateful to be involved in some small way in this project. You can find...
A random act of kindness from a prisoner. #justlikeus