26 year Correctional Officer here. When I first started back in 93', I had the same attitude of "Lock em up and throw away the key," and "Prison is supposed to be hard, not soft." On the back side of my Career having already retired, I can say that A. The more you give a person, the more you can take away. That means that the more privileges that are at stake in an Offender's behavior, as a general rule, the better his behavior. On the belief in "being hard" on Offenders, I ask you this; "When that Judge or Jury assessed the prison sentence to this person, was part of the sentence busting rocks, surviving 120 degree heat, or even being put on bread and water," as the News Reporter asked?....... The answer is no. The Judge and or Jury took away the person's TIME and time only. They said that the Offender would be removed from society for X length of time. Nothing was said in any court room about taking away someone's humanity, or dignity. However, if "dignity" must be sacrificed in the name of keeping security then it must be done. Like in our Use of Force code; "Only the amount necessary to gain compliance is authorized."

@DetectiveTrupo203

Жыл бұрын

This is a great comment

@lymarie1974

11 ай бұрын

Well said. Congrats 🎉on your retirement.

@nicholasfisher2729

6 ай бұрын

No one cares bro 😂😂😂😂

@kanivea

6 ай бұрын

Now this is someone that knows the system. Love your comment ❤️

@frauditorreaper

3 ай бұрын

My husband is in TDCJ and is a field minister. I want to say thank you for doing what you did. Being a guard in there is not an easy job. You suffer just as they do, especially in the summer heat and when you are severely understaffed. These reporters did a horrible job reporting on this story. It made me cringe when they sd "they buy this food with their own money" and "they have access to medical care more than we do out here." Both are BS! The money spent for commissary, phone calls, extra clothing, ANYTHING our loved ones need is the families money. We make sure they get what they need when we can. We do still have families and bills out here. My husband wont let me spend a penny on his until every bill out here is paid, food in the house and our son has no need for anything. The other thing was medical...the reporters FAILED to admit that inmates have high copays on everything medical...it doesn't matter what it is, there is a high copay...that we the families pay for. Lets talk about the HEAT! In the summer, if it is 100 outside, it is 110-115 inside of the prison. When it gets to 118 out here with the heat index, it is over 125 inside of the prison! Inmates and guards suffer the same during the summer. There are inmates who die and don't get taken care of for hours...there are inmates who have seizures, heart attacks and heat stroke who go a long time without medical attention. When they talk about ppl wanting the TV's removed and rec time...that's when you'll have riots. You sd it perfectly...they give up their freedom when they do their time. But they can still maintain dignity and they are still human beings. My husband did his crime a long time ago. We had broken up and had a kid a year before his crime. I didn't even know about it until a couple yrs ago when our daughter reached out to him and reunited us. But even before I knew he was in prison, I thought and felt the same way. Again, thank you for your service in TDCJ!

I did 10 years in Tdc,and the conditions are miserable! Try a summer around thousands of inmates. People fall out,all of the time. I'm not here to complain. Do the crime,do the time. But people should not complain about the cost of these prisons. There is a reason that they build these expensive prisons. The more money spent,the more money that can be hidden.The companies that get the contracts(and materials)to build these prisons,kick up money to people in public office. The cost of a 100 million dollar prison,is not 100 million dollars. People should focus on the real thieves-people in public office who sell favors to so called legitimate businesses,!All at the dumb tax payers expensive.People are more focused on how miserable an inmate is(that is probably going to be free some day),instead of the politicians who are robbing them blind(this is bipartisan robbery). These same politicians make sure that paroled inmates are eliminated from almost the entire workforce! Wonder why? Could it be they know dumb taxpayers will ignore the fact that politicians manipulate the hell out of a taxpayer money! I'm now a dumb taxpayer,who payed over 20000 dollars of my hard earned money to these termites,but i would never trade that for the dreaful life that i lived behind bars,and I will never stop exposing these parasites for who they are,and what they do.Even though,most of today's generation is focused on giving our government and ungodly amount of power. But I guess feelings,and which bathroom to use is the most important issues facing America today. Smh No surprise that we have the highest recidivism rate on the planet. We have created the dumbest society on the planet. I could write a book on how public officials use the prison system to make millions of dollars off of taxpayers,but nobody would listen! START PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT PUBLIC OFFICIALS DO WITH YOUR MONEY!! AN INMATE DOES NOT COST 20000 DOLLARS A YEAR!!!! QUIT ALLOWING YOUR GOVERNMENT TO EXPAND! FOR EVERY DOLLAR U GIVE THEM,THEY SPEND 50 CENTS,AND FIGURE OUT A WAY TO TAKE THE OTHER HALF. A TYPICAL SENATORS SALARY IS 200000$. THEY ARE ALL MULTI MILLIONARES. THIS IS NOT HARD TO FIGURE OUT!

@henrikbuchner3773

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! Schön so etwas auch einmal von einem Amerikaner zu hören. Wahre Worte! Grüße aus Deutschland 👍

@gkwarrior2791

Жыл бұрын

sir try Indian prisons

@nancysatkinson1568

9 ай бұрын

These Reporter's have NO CLUE AS TO WHAT REALLY GOES,ON IN PRISONS, I HAVE A SON IN PRISON, THEREFORE, I KNOW, AND IT'S HORRIBLE!"

@frauditorreaper

3 ай бұрын

My husband is in tdcj....soft time is far from what they do....its bad in there! These reporters had no clue what they talk about. @@nancysatkinson1568

@lk4097

Ай бұрын

Well said

He should do a stint since he thinks it's so easy

you think they got it easy? if you are not affiliated with a gang, you get robbed, extorted, beat up and sometimes killed, how is that an easy life behind bars??

@598bryce

5 жыл бұрын

Guess its another good reason to stay out of prison

@tendies9248

5 жыл бұрын

Just like what they did to innocent people on the outside then? Justice

@TexasPrisonStories

4 жыл бұрын

They think because it looks clean that means safety lol

@jeromedavis8575

4 жыл бұрын

Answer: it's not! Whether you've been there or not! That's it!

@jeromedavis8575

4 жыл бұрын

@@TexasPrisonStories that means nothing! Stay out of it!

I've served 5 years in TDC-ID, from 1993 to 1998, for possession of narcotics. And my experience, first hand and what I'd witnessed, was the complete opposite of what's depicted in this segment. I know for a fact that the opinions of the inmates who were interviewed does not represent the inmates altogether. And I know too well that the administration has their picks, when it comes to inmate representation. After all, who in their right mind would enjoy being in prison because they and buy some damn Blue Bell ice cream off the commissary and play piano? What they don't tell you is how the administration of TDCJ-ID thrives off gang violence/riots and the overall abuse and neglegence that goes on in these prisons, sometimes resulting in the death of inmates. Blatant rapes are unreported. Prisoners who are mentally disturbed and need help has committed suicide, attributed to the neglegence. And I've seen it all with my own eyes. But they'll never tell you that! That's just too much like right.

@josephroy4132

2 жыл бұрын

How much u get caught with homie.. not to be friendly. But im less then a gram n everybody telling me less then a gram pam..but i got an evading too... court appointed ..im stakkn up to get legit counsel..n i been down before.. just asking.

@ghostwriter1415

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephroy4132 what's wrong with being friendly?

@nancysatkinson1568

9 ай бұрын

I totally Agree with you, they ate spreading LIES, based upon NOTHING!

Ridiculous. I was in Ferguson when it was known as a gladiator farm in the early/mid 90's. I'd like to see this chump do even a week in a place like that. Spend a summer in the Texas heat with only cracked windows and no ac or fans, and the winter with no heat at all. Eating nothing but slop unless you want to have your outside people send you money so you can buy a coke and chips for 10x what they cost in the store. "Creature Comforts"? Lol. Unreal. If you call getting jumped, beaten buy inmates, beaten by guards comfortable...then more power to you. Going to a nicer place like Beeville, which I passed through when it was new, isn't being honest. And inmates can't work outside when it's too hot? LOL! Explain my sunburns that bled I got in the middle of August in South Texas. Most of what is in this video isn't reality. I lived it for 3 years and finally got my 99 year citizen overturned. What they aren't telling you is the free labor TDCJ gets. It's actually a money making business. Again, this is a very misleading video, and unless you live in it you have no idea.

@henro0921

6 жыл бұрын

Know your offender rights and I guarantee my lawyer will be investigating this prison because my brother is in Ferguson and now I’m worried

@theostonich

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah but the liberals lie even more because they actually control the media, such as the news, talk shows, and Hollywood. They talk all day about for example African American problems and how to fix them when they don't know anything about the African American community, most of them have some African American acquaintances but no friends. Yet are the SAAAAAAVIORS of Black America. They help the garbage of the African American community continue to dominate more and more of ruined Black America, wich they already took over because these race traitors are willing to go along with whatever self serving ridiculously Narcissistic pretentious world that they want to stereotype the African American community as.

@theostonich

6 жыл бұрын

and almost all Blacks are brainwashed by this liberal scam, it's actually scary the absolute power that so called liberals have over African Americans, for the vast majority of African Americans all the information they get trails back to the fantasy desires of these completely sheltered, White Liberals egos that neither have a clue, KNOW THAT THEY DON'T, and really don't care what's really going on in Black America and the reality of the Black experience, they also use this scam to win political battles, these White Liberals and entertainers(including Blacks who most if the time on some level know they soldout) ARE the undisputed public expert authority on Black America

@sistrgoldenhair11

6 жыл бұрын

Jackie, I know and understand from unfortunate first hand knowledge. I've lived the horrors, in the filth with power abusive guards and manipulative inmates trying to hustle to survive. This documentary was absurd and wholly misleading! I'd invite any of them to live it for a week. I feel sick to my stomach just listening to this B.S. These people are building a propaganda story to rally the public. What garbage and misinformation they are putting put there....And that is from a woman's perspective that has seen the inside of Texas's "finest" lock up! It's a s#&t hole place to live.

@stephaniegonzales464

6 жыл бұрын

How did you get your sentence overturned?

Why didnt anyone call this lier riggs out about these lies?

THIS SO CALLED REPORTER NEEDS TO FIND A JOB HE CAN DO

my brother is in mcconnell unit and this is totally doctored lol it is NOTHING like that. The issue is though if you treat these prisoners like dirt most of them, lie my brother will get out one day and when they get out do you want them to be angry with a chip on their shoulder so that they commit more crime? or do you wanna treat them like human beings and give them a chance to better themselves in prison so that they become better people when they get out?

@user-ti9sd3lo2i

9 ай бұрын

Totally agree 👍

If we did not give them things like television, recreation, commissary, radio, school, and work. They would have no incentive to behave, and we would have no priveledges to take away. They are required to attend school, and/or work, and they do not get paid for the work they do. Our prisons have no heat or air conditioning. The point of prison is rehabilitation and re-entry into society. If we cut them off from the outside world completely, we would not be able to rehabilitate them.

@iloveschicken6527

Жыл бұрын

Wait till someone you love gets wrongly convicted! It happens alot!

McConnell unit is one of the worst prisons in the world.It is nothing like this now in 2016!

@TexasPrisonStories

4 жыл бұрын

One of my best friends is over for years in the hole going insane. Its a good place to die.

@albrechtschobel9835

4 жыл бұрын

Texas Prison Stories damn I hope he get’s out of the SHU before the walls close in permanently :/ The GJ “no billed” my third degree stalking charge, which is unreal considering that Travis county is INSANE on “family violence” charges. Regardless if it’s non-violent or my first arrest ever. 90 days in county was enough to show me what an ex who dropped charges, but was subpoenaed by the state can put on a man. I have empathy for 85% of TX inmates and offenders put in TDC by the zealous and vindictive cult of prosecutors 😠

@TexasPrisonStories

4 жыл бұрын

@@albrechtschobel9835 congrats on the no bill

@mikep3322

3 жыл бұрын

They had 13 correctional officers Indited for smuggling co traband to the inmates

@anthonywashington8943

3 жыл бұрын

Naw bro, Connelly unit is

well that is the way the new prison systems are going. Personally, if i a prisoner has the ability to ever be free and to walk the streets with members of society, I think we should invest in a good and effective way of rehilbilitating these inmates. I personly think that we use prisons as a warehouse instead of a corrective action to deter repeat offenders..

@mistarichdontplay4795

3 жыл бұрын

What the problem is? Is that in 39 states that poss. of Marijuana under an once is a felony! It's a misdemeanor if only caught once in a lifetime! But if you where to get caught with cigarette worth of pot. And are poor! It carries a year in jail! If your not it carries o penalties basically. But if caught with a blunt in the next 7 years it is an automatic felony that carries a 1 to 10 year sentence! And over 2 thirds of inmates in America are serving sentences that are related to drugs. And go from a pothead into a gladiator that is forced to fight for life. That's not corrections! It is the direct opposite! .

@willmgames1775

Жыл бұрын

Rehabilitation is by choice.

@frauditorreaper

3 ай бұрын

Yes it is!!! @@willmgames1775 However, classes and opportunities to help inmates better themselves for when they are released does help. The Seminary was the best thing TDCJ ever did.

I bet Robert Riggs was scared as hell the entire time

@hdryder1568

4 жыл бұрын

Lol I was just about to type "where you at Tim Snow" I gotta hear your opinion about this place. I bet the violence is a third of what it is everywhere else. Then again confinement probably aint half bad so ain't nobody sweating the hole. Straight book a mofo and pack up like your headed on vacation lol. It's crazy how hard the keyboard warriors was riding that white cuz from pompano fl on 23 and 1 you put off a genuine presence people on here aint never disrespected you like they did they guy. Keep up the hustle homie! Your channel is moving up 💯👊

@hdryder1568

4 жыл бұрын

You ever touch down on that compound?

Mamie...I totally understand... I was a nurse... and LVN ... but I took care of my inmates...now if they disrespected me... they knew I would give them a case... period. An officer isn't the only person that can give an inmate a case. I really got tired of seeing men unclothed on purpose when I went to give them medications... and some of them even threatened to chunk on me. but all in all I even was the nurse that was able to calm down inmates that staff had riled up...

@aaron.3000

4 жыл бұрын

Ma'am, I would like to apologige for those inmates that gave you trouble. You don't deserve to be disrespected in any way. I was once in there, and I always treated Guards and Medical Staff with as much respect as I would expect from you. Thank you for all you do.

I have seen inmates get left to injure themselves while having a seizure with no intervention whatsoever, or die of heart attacks while being threatened by guards for "faking". Actually disgusting food I wouldn't feed to my dog most of the time. There is NO good time in Texas unless they choose to "take" it or keep you longer by writing disciplinary cases. Otherwise they sure aren't letting you out early because you behaved.

My right ear really enjoyed that, thanks. -_-

@kimmoreels7950

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@stevenodonnell6718

3 жыл бұрын

Same lol

only reason they get all that medical care is to keep the inmate alive so the state can keep makin money off them

@Ivanvr_

7 жыл бұрын

Daniel Chavez

@chobbs2681

7 жыл бұрын

Daniel Chavez no lie

@BMW-el7sf

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ivanvr_ dora pena

this is not true they only acted like this because of the camera crews. plus that is one of the newer units so it is all fancy and stuff let them go to Darrington one of the oldest farms in Texas built in 33 is completely different from this no AC or any cable or luxury things like that. So this report is is false and invalid.

@ViciousLatina

9 жыл бұрын

Jose Gutierrez I never worked at Darrington, but I had to stop over there on a transport once and I felt like I had just walked into Shawshank. LOL! I think I was still an OJT at the time too. I remember the Sgt. had to excuse herself b/c an inmate cut his own nuts off and threw it out onto the run.

@christopherfritsche6142

9 жыл бұрын

Amen brother, I was at Ellis, Walls and Central. This report crap!!!!

@kaseyjones6737

9 жыл бұрын

Jose Gutierrez These news people don't have a clue how miserable prison is.I did 5 flat in max.This interview is a joke.

@christopherfritsche6142

9 жыл бұрын

+Kasey JonYa this dude was fucking cluless.

@TexasPrisonStories

4 жыл бұрын

Frfr hit the red brick buildings and watch the rats and roaches run

That unit is a palace compared to where I was. I was on the Ellis Unit in Huntsville. My cell wasn't big enough to turn around in, no AC, barely any heat, broken Windows, moldy food and guards who we're known as the touch crew because they joyedthemselves in harming inmates. Mr. Riggs please don't pass judgement on all inmates. We committed a crime and deserve to be punished but it doesn't mean we aren't still human.

@tp8030

6 жыл бұрын

Christopher Fritsche I was an officer at the Estelle unit and High security unit in the 90's. I never messed with anyone. I wasnt on a power trip. I was on the S.R.T team, bc they wanted big guys and someone to volunteer for the team. It's just like inmates, there's good ones and shitty ones. I just made ppl mind. If they did that, we were cool.

@stevenserna910

Жыл бұрын

PALACE?! Yes, Darrington looks like a old castle...a Frankenstein castle. Most murderous, gang infested killer farm in '85-87. Lol, "Palace"? That's punk a** silliness! I agree Ellis 1 is nasty. Housing Death Row ain't not easy farm. Nobody that ever done time at Darrington consider it a "Palace" though.

This is so biased. Robert Riggs wouldnt last a day in there wouldnt last a day

@jeromedavis8575

4 жыл бұрын

Is Robert Riggs for real?

Prison is not a vacation.

50 years for robbery, 40 years for 1st degree murder! makes sense!

@aleg7201

4 жыл бұрын

texas doesnt have 1st degree murder only murder and capital murder do you even law

@jennfox3792

2 жыл бұрын

1st degree?? In Texas, who told you that

If you have absolutely NO family member or friends who can send you money for a fan or deodorant/toothpaste or real necessities, you go without like i did for two and a half years. I had no food inside my cell. At times if a guard got pissed at me they would even refuse me a meal and now they have even stopped the weekend lunch meals for inmates.

@silentsir2446

16 күн бұрын

🎻

Maybe instead of sentencing prisoners to prison, we should sentence them to life in Detroit without parole.

@rickanduiza186

Жыл бұрын

Escape From New York was onto something there

I was locked down 20 hours a day. With no property over 2 msdmrs it was terrible. This place looks tolerable. Lol

this is not as good as portrayed, this is b.s.

I knew this bullsh*t when homeboy said we get good hot meals

This is really bad reporting. Texas prisons are some of the harshest in the country.

The guy that said you can't just give them bread and water let's put him in a 6x8 cell and give him bread and water and let's see how he feels after a week

These fools freestyling hard. Lol anybody who been down already knows. Especially if you been to a "red brick" b4. That's doing teal hard time lol

@pfdrtom

5 жыл бұрын

Darrington here, bro. I hear ya!

@TexasPrisonStories

4 жыл бұрын

Real talk i was on beto 1

@rubensalazar9619

4 жыл бұрын

Got lucky myself. 11mo county. Then Holliday, Lychner, Walls, Holliday, Lychner, Byrd, Walls, Bridgeport, Walls. Discharged nickel.

@bowdown3320

4 жыл бұрын

Texas prison stories my nigga

@kingpettytv

4 жыл бұрын

@@TexasPrisonStories whatv was more scarier and dangerous? Beto 1 or darrington?

My best advice on how to not get treated like an offender is to not come to prison. Unlike Crazyhorse, I do not treat offenders the way I want to be treated; I treat offenders like convicted felons over whom I am paid to enforce the will of the State of Texas. If said convicted felon is not breaking any of the rules that the state pays me to enforce, then I have nothing to say to that offender. On the other hand, if he is breaking a rule, then I use the tools given to me.

@iloveschicken6527

Жыл бұрын

Wait until someone you love gets wrongly convicted! It happens a lot!

@rawhite78

Жыл бұрын

@@iloveschicken6527 Wrongful conviction is a horrible thing that happens too often, and is part of the reason I'm no longer a correctional officer (the comment to which you replied is 10 years old). That being said, wrongful conviction does not change anything in my original comment: To do their job well, a correctional officer must apply the rules across the board, and cannot say "I bet that person is actually innocent." It just cannot work that way. Wrongful conviction is a serious thing that Texas must solve if we are going to be proud of the society in which we live, but that is way above the day to day rule enforcement by line staff.

@iloveschicken6527

Жыл бұрын

@@rawhite78 Yes, I understand you and I know your comment is 10 yrs old. I'm surprised you responded.. I didn't expect it honestly lol! God bless! 😎

24 yr correctional officer here an let me tell you youngins that u dont wanna go to prison, cause u will not make it out! Meaning you will get killed, or ur soul will not be intact anymore! I sold dope, tabacco, an cellphnes to the inmates for ten yrs straite, an i was able to retire from it at the age of 46, thanks to USP inmates.

@frauditorreaper

3 ай бұрын

My husband has been in TDCJ for 28 yrs...he has been a field minister at his unit for 6 years. The young inmates who go in today, dont realize what they got themselves into until its too late.

"... to build the biggest prison system in the free world." I don't think I've heard a dumber statement.

This is outrageous propaganda!

Buddy of mine on the inside was at Connelly when the Texas 7 escaped. Lockdown. AB was my good friend when he made parole back to Amarillo. I said dude be strong and work hard. He did for around 7 months. Then went back to slinging ice. Cops chased him, he ate it and died in the patrol car. Think about him often. RIP FARRIS

@anthonywashington8943

3 жыл бұрын

Connelly unit is the worst prison in the United States

@emrakultheaeonstorn7430

4 ай бұрын

Amarillo rules!

Theres so many prison units in Texas, The Government might as well put a barb wire fence around the Whole state. It's really sad because as an Ex-con 3 times in my life...Many units don't have any water pressure, or Enough Ice for water.... When I was an inmate... It was in the middle of the winter, our Units water Pumps burnt out for clean water and sewage...I had to crap in 3 port o potties for a Month straight which Were Over Fload with Inmate Sh*T, Freezing Cold, No toilet paper and No lights,.. at Texas Travis Unit, and of All places the Texas Capitol.. oh and to add, in the summer it's like a Sauna in most of the Units...

@TexasPrisonStories

4 жыл бұрын

175 of them

McConnell was a crazy house

time off a sentence for working biggest lie they tell the public no one gets time off for working in texas prisons

@aaron.3000

4 жыл бұрын

LoL Texas is going to make you do EVERY.SINGLE.DAY, one way or another. And Maybe more.

It sounds like they got it made but trust me these places are beyond fucked up

I had a friend in Darrington in the 90's,right after GB cut smoking in '94.It was bad times when smoking was banned.Guards AND inmates getting shived on a daily.They were feining.I went down right after,and a bag of Buglers was $80.I did 3 years,but I was in a medium,so it wasn't that crazy.Got processed out at the Walls.

The way our justice system is designed is so that Offenders do re-commit. If an ex-con tries to make things better once he gets out. No one wants to hire him because he was in prison. DON"T SAY if he wants a job somewhere he can just go get one. Not in todays economy plus having a crimnial record not a good combo. So the result for the ex-con is to commit a crime. What does a person have to lose once they lost everything. Texas prisons is about getting your tax dollars.

True that!! The Ruiz case was adjudicated in 1980, and federal oversight ended in 2002.

This guy is clueless. They're prisoners, but they still have basic rights. You can't deny them medical care or food. Letting them lift weights and play basketball is saving the state money in healthcare costs from having a bunch of sedentary guys suffering from illnesses caused by such.

This reporter is ridiculous.

This guy is sooooo very wrong for this report...What lies are in it from my own experience in TDCJ. My stay was NOT comfortable. They DO work inmates in 100+ degree heat, and if they dare to faint from dehydration or worse from any medical condition they will be given a disciplinary case which helps keep them from parole. My unit did NOT have cable television. tiny cells with no air circulation.

I know this report is old but the basic theme, "inmates are being coddled" it a timeless trope that gets tv viewers excited. I was in the first TDC academy after Ruiz and I was assigned to the Eastham Unit from 82 to 85. Eastham was ground-zero of the Ruiz vs. Estelle lawsuit. You really don't want to return to the pre-Ruiz days of institutionalized brutality. Most inmates will return to society eventually. Treating them with a little respect and minimum baseline of humane conditions may just be a good investment in a safer society overall. If the costs of humane incarceration are prohibitive quit locking up so many people.

How does this guy think people are supposed to pass time? How about preventing riots and more violence. He apparently doesn’t understand managing a prison population.

The porn was banned while I was working in the system and I even had a homosexual prisoner offer to give me his Playgirls... Ruiz vs Estelle screwed up the entire system...

This video report is extremely biased. The inmate in the medical ward at about 15:10 looked like he was in a coma..... wow, look at that great medical service. The guy is in a coma; doesn't matter because that medical service is top notch.

I know a person in the TDJC and he also worked in the kitchen, its nothing like what is shown n this news report, the person told me that the food they grow there is usally full of worms and catapillars which are severed cooked along with the food. The guards like to provoke the inmates and then punish them the warden loves to play games with the inmates and when the prisioner follows the right line of forms is told that the warden can do it just because he wants to. they are no playboy magazines or anything like that, that are allowed.

@Pinkugirl

8 жыл бұрын

Now that's what it was like, and even when I was there, 2000-2005... But this was back in the 90s and time was pretty easy then

This video is another case of the media having no idea what it's talking about. They seem not to have bothered reporting on the psychological and behavioral benefits of exercise, TV, and other current "benefits" (a loosely applied term if I've ever heard one). They also seem to have ignored the evidence (and I've done extensive research) that expanded privileges and rights for prisoners actually contributes to rehabilitation far better than hard punishment. Surprise, surprise.

I lasted 23 seconds. We don't have a dept of corrections, in Texas. We have a Department of Criminal Justice.

@stevenserna910

Жыл бұрын

Sir, before they gave it a coat of paint, they changed the name from TDC Texas Department of Corrections, to whatever the Hell it is now. You can call a pig whatever you want but its still a damn pig. Unless you been there and done that, shut your a**!

hot and cold running water my ass. i spent a whole winter damn near in a wing that had no hot water and no heat in the wing until the third week of January. what bullshit

Education is not a comfort its a will to learn. If u cant learn how do u LEARN from ur mistakes????

Omg this is so not true!!! I know people in prison and they absolutely NOT live like that!! They dont even have water in summer, and meals are so small they lost most of their weight. And prisons are not as "big" as this video shows, i dont know who made this but prisons are SO CROWDED! And this is something EVERYBODY knows in America. That money is obviously not going to the inmates and they do not live so "happily ever after" in there. Be realistic.

This was prior to the year 2000. I wonder what the conditions are like at the McConnell Unit now, in 2017. Yeah, I do know this much - even in south Texas they have no moving air much less air conditioning of any kind even in the Texas heat. I have yet to be convinced that these prisons actually prepare inmates to be productive responsible citizens when they get out. And that's just sad!

They're in prison. Why do you try to make it look like they're on a Norwegian Cruise? Stories like this are horrible. The goal isn't who can treat inmates worst. What's wrong with you people?

It’s against the law not to have a law library. Inmates should have access to help for their cases

It doesn't bother me that they get a little something extra to eat with their money..maybe it is better they get it than be disruptive.

I've done 13 years flat in Texas prisons I've been to 6 outta of 108 total .. it's not like that

@slaughter4113

2 жыл бұрын

Like what !?!?

I never witnessed that where I worked and that was at a Maximum security prison... now if a guard even tries to help get contraband smuggled into the facility for an inmate or has relationship with an inmate...they go to prison...it is considered a felony now... whether or not it was consensual sex or not...

BS they dont give you ice cream. You buy it at commissary. You buy your own magazines etc.

They definetly work ya hard as fuck no matter the weather

Contaminated water (and very little of it) and certainly did not have hot and cold water in fact many times we could not even flush a toilet for days and had maggots in our shower drains. Inmates die from simple illnesses that nobody should ever die from due to lack of adequate medical care. I had asthma which is actually closer to emphysema and always got told I was "faking" and of course they did their best to put me out in the field in the extreme where I could not breathe.

This was not how it was. Spent 12 years in TDCJ. It may have been like that in the early 90s but today, hell no.

Where the new documentaries at

If you all believe the positive of this video then you’re gullible. Don’t believe the hype.

That was a Great Report from the Onsite Reporter.

Damn like that fuck working for 7.25 I'm going to rob a bank and if I get caught I'll be living like a king

Clemens unit where the kids are locked up is the most horrible prison

Total lies! Prison is bad! I've never been, and I never will! Hell no!

Read up on Coffield. They wouldn't be saying the same. All these lawsuits and people getting upset because the "inmates rights" are being violated. How can they ever be rehabilitated or held responsible for their actions if they have a cushy lifestyle? I'm not saying the COs and the system need to be brutal and unjust, but this isn't sleep away camp.

Treat a man how you WISH HE WAS, not how he is. If you treat these men as animals then they will be just that.

Cons deserve no rights until they exit Prison. Your there for a reason, to learn what you've done wrong, not for a vacation. Constitutional rights are for citizens not criminals, criminals gave those rights up when they committed the crimes they committed!

@kristiskinner8542

2 жыл бұрын

No they didnt. They still have basic civil & human rights. They are still citizens of this state & country. And nothing about prison is a vacation for anyone, the person in there or their family/friends. This reporter is full of shit & thinking they have "luxuries" & the idea that they should have no rights are simply asinie. They gave up their freedom not their basic rights

I have learned quite a bit about TX prisons this year. It is one of the most abusive systems in the country. Why the citizens of TX let this go on without outrage just blows my mind. It is nothing short of torture.

@onlydon7137

3 жыл бұрын

Eye for an eye

@GD-xc4wg

2 жыл бұрын

Not just TX. All US has a issue... drugs #1 but also politics and gangs... To many ppl in prison in this country!

@stevenserna910

Жыл бұрын

The citizens if Texas don't two flyin' sh**s. Too busy with their own lives. They like the idea that "holy-revenge" is being meeted out by the state against "law-breakers". Hence...republican, "Old west" mentality. They're cool with it, as long as its not them behind those walls.

@stevenserna910

Жыл бұрын

The citizens of Texas don't give two flyin' sh**s. Too busy with their own lives. They like the idea that "holy-revenge" is being meeted out by the state against "law-breakers". Hence...republican, "Old west" mentality. They're cool with it, as long as its not them behind those walls.

@stevenserna910

Жыл бұрын

@@onlydon7137 I actually seen a white boy get his eyeball kicked out of his eye socket by a black guy wearing steel toe brogans on Beto1 in '84. Guess he gave an eye. Black folks "got on boots" too.

I spent time at Ramsey one back in 1974, I worked in the field you think it's rough now you should have been in there in the 70s

@frauditorreaper

3 ай бұрын

My husband has been in for 28 years. He also worked the fields. He did some time at Darrington and sd it is calmer today than it was in the 90's.

I have worked in a psychiatric facility and they have to have a constant temperature due to the psychiatric medications that are ordered... simply because on certain medications, the brain cannot function if not in a temperature controlled building. I don't know how many catch-outs we had during the summer because they wanted the air conditioning. And all they had to do is follow rules... which most of them couldn't do.

@aaron.3000

4 жыл бұрын

Another misleading statement. YOUR OFFICE is air conditioned. Sometimes, there are holding cells in the medical department where they stay for a few hours until they are reassigned. The inmates are not graciously Air Conditioned like you want people to believed.

Hey, does anyone knows where are the first timers in a unit after being transferred from unit to unit?

@aaron.3000

4 жыл бұрын

When they are transferred from the county, they go to either The Holliday Unit or the Gurney Unit. Very rarely are they sent anywhere else initially. They will stay at either unit for anywhere from a month to 2 years for intake processing. Usually it's anywhere from 1-9 months. The ones that are at these transfer units longer than 9 months are trustees, but they don't stay there for longer than 2 years. After that, they are transferred...and it's anyone's guess where they are transferred to. They are allowed to bring a Bible or Quran in with them from County with a list of contact's addresses and phone numbers, and you should have them write to you or call collect. Yes, they can call collect now, there is limited phone usage with collect-only phones. If you want to know what Unit a person is on, you can go to the TDCJ Website and go to "Offender Search". Enter their first and last name. You don't have to know their TDCJ Number.

Its not like this at all. I got out of McConnell a year ago and went to other tdcj facilities where its the opposite of this. Tiny windows for ventilation and obviously no a/c or heat. Fights erupting out of no where. 3 meals a day yes but 3 out of 10 meals are even eatable. Trust me these guys know their in prison. I myself dont wish it on anyone.

@tp8030

6 жыл бұрын

Mario Sandoval, you're right. I use to be a C.O and lots of units around Huntsville are non A/C and Heat. It was a hot mfer.

@TexasPrisonStories

4 жыл бұрын

This is a horrible unit that they made look good smh

Dont Mess with Texas!

God reminds Christians not to forget the prisoners…Remember the prisoners in your daily prayers, whatever The Holy Spirit may put upon your heart to pray about. Did you know that The Texas Prison System is known throughout the world as one of the hardest prison systems in the world to mentally survive in for a long period of time, much less the physical abuse that may occur at anytime from another inmate and or a correctional officer.

I’m sorry, but this entire show is very inaccurate to the the way the Texas prison units are actually run.

lucky they not in Angola penitentiary you will work whether you like it or not

15 years for cocaine possession 18 years for murder... 🤔

Rehabilitation???

Yes, carrots AND sticks are needed to manage inmates, but one thing I know, inmates should be REQUIRED to rebate at least as much to their victims as they get to spend on goodies.

Let a reporter go do a week without any protection! See how he makes it!

"Actually he's in for killing 2 drug dealers, and what? They made their choice & he made his ... " I rest my case. BTW, are they going to end his miserable life soon? Many of us are tired of providing the money to feed him.

Most time its two years in a transfer facility them u are housed at I.d unit but u could be moved at any time

Miss my job and friends William mc conell unit,beeville be safe Raul.

@crazyhorse1369 I didn't mean to imply that you are friendly. I meant for my comment to be directed more toward those that do not understand that we are not paid to smile at the offender and hug them if their day is not full of rainbows and puppies. They are human, and I treat them like humans and according to policy, but doesn't mean his family is going to understand or approve when I make him follow policy as well.

Truth is truth bro.

@aaron.3000

4 жыл бұрын

Correct. And this is not it.

Give em nutriloaf when in seg

It isn't a Hilton hotel, look at it as punishment.

osshh nice one bro, thats word

@kimmoreels7950

3 жыл бұрын

lol no one uses that word anymore

Thank god I love america

I only did 2yrs in TDC .It would be 120 during the day and in the 90s at night.Thank God I never went back

The minute they started with "spending on Creature Comfort" I stopped watching. Criminals or not, they are human beings. And as I have heard, Texas state prisons are no damn picnic. They are the worst prisons anyone could be put in. Almost to the point of inhumane. Lawsuits have been filed and won against them because the conditions were so deplorable, that even the judicial system saw that the prisons were not meeting the minimum standards of safety. At one point, they had conditions in which even prison guards were suffering the effects of heat stroke and the water was considered below the standards of safety.

Not sure what is true or not back that time but today tdcj is having more dorms than 2 ppl "room". And they still work and get 3 meals a day + some recreation time but not hours like this video says. For medical there is but it takes often more than 48h to see someone and it usually is a nurse not a Dr... Then have to deal with inmates jalousy, anger and depression... All those things just make life harder for sure. But again we do not go in prison due to mistake but due to bad choice. And on the other hand, no one gets better hearted with angry guards, no food or mean ppl arround. Only with showing love and be strict and get them safe that MAYBE they will light up and change. Most will go back in sadly

@thenextorion Either your family member is lying to you, or the unit price varies greatly. My commissary sells ramen for .25 cents, which is a bit higher than some stores, and about right for others. Bluebell sells for $1.75-$2.00 per pint. Prices have gone up thought, on my unit the ramen used to be $.15