August 22, 2011
Have a loved one in jail or prison ?
If you or anyone you know has information regarding abuse of your loved ones inside jail or prison contact me at the address to your right, we are a organization dedicated to securing the safety of your loved ones.
August 22, 2011
Medical neglect/abuse/deaths.
Any information concerning medical neglect/abuse on the Ellis,Estelle,Hughes Units, please contact:
Jimmy Ferguson –
tcocfounder@yahoo.com
KPFT 90.1 The Prison Show 419 Lovett Blvd Houston TX 77006
or visit our other websites -
We are targeting these two units due to the rise in deaths/rapes on these units
August 22, 2011
Texas Prison Mistakes
Embarrassing and high-profile mistakes going on in Texas prisons from a man in a wheel chair escaping and a man making death threats from a cell phone on death row, 11 news reporter Shern-Min Chow spoke with a man who spent years as a Warden and now he’s lobbying for prison reform.
April 3, 2013
Prison rape: Sexual torture
by Kenny Zulu Whitmore
Revolutionary greetings, my people.
Prison is a lonely, dark, cruel reality where you immediately become trapped in a time warp on one of the many modern day plantations that have sprung up like trees across America.
Rape in prison is a part of the fabric as is rotten, evil, racist corrections officers, or COs. One of America’s taboos right up with “There are no…
February 24, 2012
Out Of Eden; When The Private Prison Bubble Bursts
Last week, it emerged that the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) had sent a letter to 48 states offering to take their prisons off their hand in exchange for a quick infusion of cash. The only small catch was that the states would have to sign a contract guaranteeing 90% occupancy of those prisons for the next 20 years…
For decades now, many small towns across America that fell on hard times were only too happy to embrace the prison industry as their economic salvation. The CCA’s website features an article from the Texas Monthly magazine, entitled “Yes in my Back Yard: How Eden learned to stop worrying and love its private prison”, about one such town called Eden, which is apparently besotted with its CCA-owned detention center. While the CCA has become one of the leading local employers, the article cheerfully notes that “At least half the town’s 2,500 residents live behind bars.”
The half of the town that is behind bars didn’t get to weigh in with their feelings about what it’s like to live in a prison town. Presumably, for them, Eden is no paradise. But the town’s free citizens, many of whom have jobs in the prison, will not hear a bad word said against it.
The nature of the work did not seem to bother anyone too much, apart from the admission that the town still loses young people who, apparently, don’t grow up dreaming of a prison job. All in all, though, the Texas Monthly reports so much enthusiasm about the prison that one can’t help considering the possibility that Eden may have hit on the economic model of the future whereby one half of the town is behind bars and the other half is gainfully employed to keep them that way. What’s not to like?
November 29, 2011
The Prison Show On Blog Talk Radio
We are pleased to announce our new affiliation with BlogTalk Radio! This provides us with a “virtual switchboard” giving us 50 incoming phone lines!! We can’t possibly air 50 calls in an hour, but the re-dial button will finally get a break and the majority won’t have to hit a busy signal! We are looking for this to be a great benefit for our listeners! Also, the Chat-Room interface with BlogTalk is much easier, so we invite you to join the conversation and chat with other listeners as you are waiting to dial in or get on the air!
We will announce when the phone lines are open, and begin taking calls when we play the break song. Please do not call in before we announce that we are taking calls. The “board” will be cleared before we start taking them and if you’ve dialed in early, your call will be dropped and you’ll have to dial again!
The Prison Show Online Radio by The Prison Show | Blog Talk Radio.
August 22, 2011
Rick Perry Speaks To ALEC
For those who don’t already know, ALEC is the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Learn more about their deadly influence in our politics here.
August 22, 2011
Prisoner Health Care To Take Brunt of Budget Cuts
AUSTIN, Texas — Health care money for Texas’ 156,000 prison inmates will be cut by $75 million in the new fiscal year starting Sept. 1 under a slimmed-down $3.06 billion budget Texas corrections officials disclosed Friday.
The health care reductions account for the largest difference from the $3.12 billion budgeted for the nation’s second-largest prison system in the 2011 fiscal year.
Specifics of the overall prison agency budget, with money approved by the Texas Legislature in the recently concluded session where a state budget shortfall overshadowed nearly all lawmakers’ work, were revealed at the Texas Board of Criminal Justice meeting in Austin.
“We will have our work cut out for us in terms of developing levels of service, developing partnerships and rate structures so we can make these appropriation levels work,” Brad Livingston, executive director of the Department of Criminal Justice, told the board. “We received certainly a very loud and clear message, along with our partners, that there’s an expectation that we develop cost-savings mechanisms and partnerships and overall approaches to make this work.”
Health care at more than 100 prisons has been the responsibility of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center for nearly two decades under contracts with the prison system. UTMB accounts for about 80 percent of the care, and officials there and at Texas Tech have said they provide the care at a deficit.
“The expectations on the part of everybody is that we develop a system, a partnership, and tighten those partnerships we have to make the funding levels work,” Livingston said.
Read more: CBS Money Watch
August 21, 2011
Texas Prisons Lead Nation In Sexual Abuse
April 2010 – Each week, the staff of the prison watchdog group Just Detention International receives about 30 letters from inmates who say they’ve been sexually assaulted in prisons across the nation.
More than a quarter of those letters come from one state: Texas.
Sexual abuse is a problem in prisons from Rikers Island to Albany, N.Y. But even when adjusted for the number of inmates in a given prison system, Texas still stands out as the state where sexual assault in prison is most prevalent.
Five of the 10 prisons with the highest rates of sexual abuse in the country are in Texas. That includes the top two, the Estelle Unit and the Clements Unit.
Garrett Cunningham was an inmate at the Luther Unit in Navasota, Texas, in 2000, when he says a corrections officer twice his size accosted him on his way to the shower, handcuffed him, raped him, and then forced him into the shower. Cunningham said the officer threatened to have him transferred to “a rougher unit where I would be raped all the time” if he told anyone about the assault.
Cunningham told his story to a panel of congressmen investigating sexual abuse in prisons in 2005.
“Many men and women in Texas experience sexual abuse at the hands of officers and other prisoners,” Cunningham said. “Their pleas for help go unanswered by administrators and staff.”
Read more on BeaumontEnterprise
