to the person whining about your husband....stealing someones car and running from the cops is a serious offense and hes lucky not to be in a max facility like Robertson....keep in mind that TDCJ is criminal JUSTICE, not some kind of second chance rehab or halfway house. They are not obligated to provide felons with education and special privilages ect. I realize all of this and i am an ex con who has done time at this facility as well and im here to tell you.....this by far the easiest unit to do time on....number one because its run by CCA and number 2 because this place has the lowest level of security in any prison in Texas. If i were you id be more worried about the future crimes he will be committing when the parole board grants his release.

I AM REALLY SURE WHAT IS GOING ON, I HABENT GOTTEN A LETTER FROM MY BOYFRIEND. AND IM NOT SURE IF HE'S ALRIGHT. IS THIS LOCK DOWN CAUSED BY THE REASON ANY PEOPLE HAVENT GOTTEN LETTTERS? WHAT IS GOING ON?

Well I going this week too see my twin brother there in cca!  well I traveling 6 hours to see him i have not seen him for 6months already!  I have not heared from him since april 12 So i have decided to go visit him and also i find out when i called that he had been in a fight!  and that not my brother but I guess the prison system you change to make it throw prison!"  I hope nothing has happend to my brother!  

I BEAT ALL OF YOU MY FAMILY AND I HAVENT HEARD FROM MY BROTHER IN 3 1/2 YEARS WE FINALLY GOT A TIP THAT HE MAY POSSIBLY BE IN THIS PRISON AND I COME TO CALL THEM AND THE DAMN OFFICER TELLS ME THAT I CAN NOT GET ANY INFORMATION BECAUSE I DONT HAVE A TDC NUMBER ISNT' THAT A BITCH I REALLY NEED TO KNOW WHERE HE IS AND IF HE IS OK OR EVEN ALIVE. 

look for all u poeple who really want to know about this place ,, it sucks,,, i was there when this so call riot went down, the thing is they doont want anyone knowing the real reason for it breakin off,,,alot of shit goes down that the family dont know about , well, i'll give each and everyone of ya'll a lil taste ,,these fuckers degrade you  like if you were a nobody becuz they can get away with it ,, alot of the inmates think that going to mineral wells is one step closer to going home<<bullshit,, the only reason they send you there is to take you off of T,D,C, count,, mineral well is a privately own facility,,but lil did them fuckers know was that i knew the game,, whatever you do in there really does effect you,, all they gonna do is ship u off of that play grownd to a real unit,,like i told them bitches before i left,, ''send me,, all ya'll doing is sendin me with my homeboyzz''' pissed them off cuz the next bus ride i was gone,,,anyways , the reason that kicked off that day was cuz they had this new female trying to change shit around ,,like you had to wear your t-shirts outside,,we all got together the week before this happen and came to an agrement,,,the mexicans, blacks and whites were gonna make store fist before anything ,, well on this day that this happen, they fucked us all out of recreation that whole day saying that the count was fucked up,, well on last chow,, we layed it down and didnt return to our dorms, the main warden came kissing azz and gave us our time,, but the north side didnt know,, so when they all saw that we bucked, they blew it all up to something else,,every guard left running cuz they were throwing rock at them ,, tear gass was thrown at us till we said it was enough,, even afterwards ,,they still hit us all with gass,, but if you ask me,, thats what them hoes get for fuckin with the wrong poeple,,we were on lock down for a whole month eatin ''johnies'' a fucken peanut butter sandwich and a ham sandwich each day for a month,, how do you really get full on that,,, but, to them we're the one that r always wrong even when we r right ,

my husband has been in mineral wells since october. there has been 1 riot since he has been there. that was in december. when i went to visit it did take a little while but not too long. you are supposed to get a 2 hour visit and i think they cut ours by 30 minutes short. my husband says that he hates it there because they have nothing to offer there. no classes or anything and thats one of the things that the perole board takes into consideration when coming up for perole. but if theres no classes then it doesnt look good on the inmate when coming up for perole.  so in my next letter that i write to the perole board i am going to mention that. i heard that if the health inspectors fail this facility again that it will shut down. so maybe some of us can call the health board of mineral wells and get them over there again to have this place shut down. my husband says its nasty. he says theres no way it would pass a health inspection. my husband is really wanting to take some classes and atleast benefit from something while being there but they dont give that oppurtunity. he says other than the riot theres hasnt been alot of violence since hes been there. i just worry about him all the time. i guess all we can do is pray for the men in there.

Doe's anyone know a inmate who's name is John Albert Morey"Jamey",?  He is a friend of mine from Ohio and I have not heard from him in three years.  I just did a search and found him to be in this facility.  He's white, tall and lanky, wears tinted glasses and somewhat goofy but otherwise harmless or at least he was.  He is a cocain addict and makes poor choices when he uses, that's his crime.  Yes he broke the law with CS possession, evading arrest from officers on foot and a bogus domestic violence charge that his then GF put on him.  This guy get loud and probably yelled at her for not sharing the coke he was using and caught this charge which lead the police to him and this charges he caught.  He's a talented home remodeler and can do any type of handy work or construction better than any person I have ever used for such things as well as being a gifted musician playing guitar.

  It is my opinion that private run institutions are not cohesive to rehabilitation but are there for profit, plain and simple,  and although there is no excuse for breaking the laws of the land,  this man poses no threat to society at large.  I just want to know if he is still there, that he is OK and making his way through the path he put in front of himself.  So if he has any friends at all.  If you know someone in this place and they know of him please pass my concern along with the thought that his friend in Ohio still care and that he's not forgotten.  If I break a law I expect to pay for my crime just like the next guy,  but this does not sound like a place where any inmate should be just so the state of Texas can save money.  The old cliche of treatment over incarceration still might hold true for many inmates.  There are those in the world who are just fucked up and will never comform to societies rules and belong behind bars,  and then there's the 90% of inmates who just need to learn that there is a better life for them than what they might have gotten as children or kick their drug of choice.  I'm not a bleeding heart and if you hurt myself or my family I can be as nasty as the next mF'r.  I just want to know if someone can get word of or to my friend.  I'm not even sure how I found this web site other than through devine intervention from a higher power,  so my thoughts are that this might help his loved ones find his ass and help get him through his difficult time that his addiction has sent him to.  I do think he's probably learned his lesson if this place is the hell hole as described by everyone posting here. 

 Thanks for reading this and I pray for all the inmates "good or bad" that they find a better life and that I get an answer this this query.

My husband heard a rumor that this bullshit unit is closing down in September. Does anyone know if its true?

This place does suck. Just got out, there are fights every day and theres every kind of drug there. the female guards actually perform favors sometimes, this place is cool to do time but dangerous