The Texas Penal Colony is one of the most expansive industries in the United States.

However, while the populations have swelled to over capacity, the Texas Correctional Industries programs have not kept in step.

As a result basic concepts of imprisonment in Texas remain unchanged from the prior plantation dictates that induce slavery.

Inmate Laborers in Texas are wholly uncompensated for their work, and conditions remain barbaric in spite of twenty years of formal litigation, offering Inmate Laborers little hope for the future.

There are no effective programs which would allow for an environment wherein rehabilitation and productivity are synonymous.

Therefore those of us who remain confined within the Penal colony are doomed to remain chained to the revolving door that has long become the accepted policy of incarceration in Texas.

Legislators are happy to accept this concept of incarceration as it provides Texans with an ever growing industry, which in turn provides the citizenry of Texas with jobs in various areas of corrections.

This insane policy must be stopped and it is up to us to stop it.

We must bind together so as to form a political base from which we may collectively assert our Human Rights and negotiate collective bargaining for improved working and living conditions, wages, and rehabilitative programs.

These programs will allow us to develop skills and habits which will lend to our once again entering society as responsible and productive citizens.

Daily, the current Texas government is stripping more and more away from us and will continue to do so until there is nothing left.

Only "WE" can stop this onslaught against human rights and social justice, only "WE" can help ourselves.

For more information on how you can help, please write:

Lt. Col. Ricky L. Long
Founder
RR 3 Box 59 PP490671
Rosharon, TX 77583