After randomly being awakened in the early morning, boarded onto the TDCJ transportation bus, then shipped to the Ramsey Unit, a prisoner told me that the experience was like “being snatched from a dungeon and sent to a new wave slave plantation.” The statement he made is a reality that many prisoners housed in close custody units and solitary confinement cells throughout the state of Texas are experiencing, on a whim. In fact, the majority of prisoners that are sent … Continue reading TDCJ’s ad-seg program is for profit not for rehabilitation: From sensory deprivation to sensory overload – and back