Category Archives: Personal Stories

We’re bored and our life is uncertain. Holidays are short and empty. We’re overwhelmed with meaningless busy work and feel like rats in a maze trying to find our way out. People die here. Not like what is expected in prison or hospitals, but in exile. A death from the program where treatment is notContinue reading “DEATHS IN CIVIL COMMITMENT”

by punkie 2017 when christmas is overi won’t have to pretendto feel jolly and brightwhen I’m empty within i’ve no brothers or sistersmy family’s all gonethere’s nothing but darknesswhere once the sun shone what’s that you say?be of good cheer?how can I? who would?i cry through my tears my friends all have childrenor parents orContinue reading “i’ll be glad when christmas is over”

March 2, 2022 To whom it may concern:My son, Rodney D. Pollard, was released from TDCJ January 24, 2015, one day before serving his entire prison sentence of 20 years. As a sex offender, he had completed sex offender rehabilitation therapy at the Hightower prison unit near Dayton Texas. This program has been wonderfully successful,Continue reading “Please, Someone Who Can, Do Something to Stop This terrible Program.”

I looked for a poem that was just right; To support the men and families last night. Men have paid their societal debt; Have been locked up long enough for regret. Yet those in power of this State, Hide behind the prison industrial scheme, Making others pay long after their release date, Because they claimContinue reading “Dear Families and Friends,”

How I believe I’m being harmed by this Treatment Environment  By Current TCCC Resident Our Texas Legislators have created a Civil Commitment Scheme, (pursuant to Texas law) which has merely shifted the focus of punishment from the criminal realm, into the civil sphere of influence via confluence of law. Thereby, shifting punishment from prisoner’s bodiesContinue reading “TREATMENT REPORT 5 “

**Please note that this was written prior to Management Training Corporation taking over for Correct Care Recovery Solutions as the management of the facility. Sadly, nothing has changed and many things are worse or deteriorating under the current management.** By a Current TCCC Resident  Texas Civil Commitment Offices’ supervision and management system is strict, unreasonableContinue reading “TREATMENT REPORT 3 “

By Current Civil Detainee at TCCC (This was written prior to the Management Training Corporation taking over management of TCCC. Sadly, the situation has not gotten better and in many cases continues to deteriorate.) It is my firm belief that Texas’ Tiered Sex Offender Treatment programs Structure has become an institutional failure, which lacks aContinue reading “Treatment Report 2 “

Written by a Current Resident at TCCC I’m a 40-year-old Hispanic male. I was 17 when I caught my first case in 1989. I got another charge in 1990 when I was 18 years old. I ended up plea bargaining for 60 years aggravated assault. If I wouldn’t have done that, I would’ve been facingContinue reading “Freedom on Earth?”

My name is LaDonna Smith. I have a brother in the Texas Civil Commitment Center facility in Littlefield, Texas. There is a resident there named Victor Jackson who started a hunger strike on October 12th. Victor is wanting to bring attention to the mistreatment of the men at the facility and the lies that theContinue reading “A Family Member Speaks Out“

**Please note that this was written prior to Management Training Corporation taking over for Correct Care Recovery Solutions as the management of the facility. Sadly, nothing has changed and many things are worse or deteriorating under the current management.** by A Current Civil Detainee It is my firm belief that psychologists/therapists here at Texas CivilContinue reading “Treatment Report 1 “