Mask Off: Uncovering Texas' Corrupt Prisons and the Arrested Development within it

By K- Mack and Kenzie Nelson

This book is an expose of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). On sentencing day, the court locks in another conviction. The offender is now on the way to the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC), the underbelly of the beast. This beast cannibalizes its new or returning visitors. Each Unit within the TDC has its own unique culture, from the intakes to the established I.D. Units, to Club Beto, to Go tell if Ellis from Garza East transfer to Middleton transfer.

Mask Off serves as a survivalist guide through this jungle, teaching you what must be done in order to protect yourself. My aim is to inform the public in both a serious and lighthearted, witty type of way. This book attacks real subjects in a relaxed manner with sound advice. It familiarizes the reader with the inner workings of prison from a convict's eye. A couple of people told me not to put out this information, to keep it secret. But the truth needs to be told. that applies universally to other prisons and even the real world after all people are people. This book shows you what must be done to protect yourself from someone else's plan for what you have. It also delves into why's and the how's.

The historical formation of our current prison system is discussed to inform the audience of how we got here. Our other topics include, but are not limited to, private prisons, the history of incarceration in America, prison homosexuality, prison gangs, correctional officers, and prison healthcare. And it's steeped in marginalizing the less educated, mentally disabled, impaired, challenged and ill. Also, people of color and poor white and most of all those living in poverty.

Gangs and why to stay out of that mind frame in prison. The importance of a daily exercise and routine and the multiple benefits of it. Why sex cases are on the rise. The real criminals in TDCJ are not always the actual inmates. Why women should stay with their man despite his offense and or time. Relationships and how convicts deal with them. And of course, the C.O.'s whom we are subject to we call them Boss man, Boss lady, law man we expose what goes on behind the scenes of the normal dog and pony show of everyday prison. Throughout this work I kept the terminology authentic and where it needs to be explained I did.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CF4FP34Y
• ISBN13: 9798395308474
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"