http://www.tofreethetruth.com A Co-authored insight into one man's struggle with justice. Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:34:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. ... http://www.tofreethetruth.com/plife/dr/the-courage-of-hope/ The way I was raised in prison was you don't ever back down from anyone, no matter how big and bad they are. If you feel disrespected you immediately address the issue. To let anything slide without doing so will inevitably draw the interest of those who want something from ... http://www.tofreethetruth.com/robert/a-fighting-chance/ The first thing most people notice when they meet me are my tattoos. My left arm is entirely inked out except for a small piece of flesh on my bicep, and my right arm is a quarter of the way covered. A third of my back is covered by a ... http://www.tofreethetruth.com/plife/gp/scarred-by-life/ All I have in this world is my wife...once they banned my wife it was over for me. They're gonna have to kill me the old fashioned way now. I have no reason to live... I'm on level 3, the bottom of the barrel, the worst place you can be in ... http://www.tofreethetruth.com/plife/dr/pushed-into-violence/ There's a common misconception about death row prisoners: We're all supposed to be serial killers, serial rapists, child molesters, or depraved sociopaths that have committed the most heinous acts imaginable--the Ted Bundys of the world. Indeed, that's what the death penalty was meant to address--the most heinous of crimes. In ... http://www.tofreethetruth.com/plife/dr/we-are-people-too/   The most appealing part of being locked in administrative segregation, for me, was not being forced into slave labor. Texas doesn't pay its prisoners. You either work or get punished for refusing. It used to eat at my soul working for free. Not only was I in prison for 99 ... http://www.tofreethetruth.com/plife/dr/life-in-ad-seg/ Even though the threat of violence is always there in prison, there are times of peace and people can change inside these gates. When I was still trying to learn how to "do time," I met an old school black dude named Willy. I asked for his advice if he ... http://www.tofreethetruth.com/plife/no-way-to-live/ Fighting doesn't always save you. It only puts the odds in your favor. Some predators don't mind a fight if they get what they want without any repercussions form the guards or inmates. If they can beat a guy badly enough and force him not to tell the guards, they ... http://www.tofreethetruth.com/plife/gp/captain-save-a-ho/ In my opinion, sexual deviants, as a general rule, have repressed sexual desires and/or memories. It's no wonder to me why some priests, after years of suppressing their natural sexual urges, molests choir boys. Surely you've heard stories of men stuck out at sea for months...how some who wouldn't normally ... http://www.tofreethetruth.com/plife/gp/booty-bandits/ As long as there's the possibility -- no matter how remote -- that an innocent person could be killed, nobody should be for the death penalty --Kirk Bloodsworth, exonerated '93 One of the most serious concerns with capital punishment is the fact that it is very possible an innocent person can ... http://www.tofreethetruth.com/general/innocently-murdered-no/