When Texas Prison Scams Religion

Primer on Golden Thread of TRUST Amid Illegal Scandals & Entanglements TRUST is the golden thread woven thru this book, what prison chaplains cherish and cultivate as fairly as they possibly can, representing God to most, yet most of all conveying a concern for the soul, often invisibly. When those over the chaplains are nefarious—unTRUSTworthy—that makes the chaplains’ facilitation of TRUST harder in the delicate interpersonally hostile environs of prison. Texans TRUST TDCJ to do right. When TDCJ uses prisoner psychopaths to counsel other Texans’ children in prison, TRUST is violated from the top down, ten years running. Now this seventh volume. TDCJ modeled the most scandal-ridden warden in penal history (BOOK 2). Ten years later, the TBCJ missed three sets of infamies: 1) Warden Cain’s scandals; 2) TBCJ’s refusal to see its grossest gov/religion entanglement; and 3) the horde of Rehab Division scandals. Asked throughout—Is TDCJ’s Rehab Division the most nefarious division? Do not mistake this for a mere exposé of those three infamies, for we hogtie those to the TBCJ’s 25 years of indifference to religious abuse of prisoners with an inexcusable impunity for nefarious staff. We cite 1,800-plus experts, 99.99% of which are totally alien to the TBCJ and their directors, and we illustrate with cultural treasures that further reveal the depth of nefariousness vis-à-vis FAIRNESS & TRUST. A putrid irony spans decades: above illegality was under TBCJ chairmen and members, most of whom are high-dollar lawyers! Worse, after that for ten years, what else have the TBCJ ignored or hid? Opposite to Burl Cain’s claim on his Prison Seminaries Foundation’s (PSF) website that the “greatest asset in any department of corrections system is the morally rehabilitated inmate”—that is, his vacuous definition and example of moral—we prove the staff and volunteers the greatest force for prisoner change, and we expose a horde of nefariousness. “Moral rehab lying for religion” is now in 30-plus prisons also lying about neutrality. No surprise: each year, 2017–2020, Cain paid himself one-sixth of his PSF’s annual contributions—how sweet! I would have rather been a chaplain these last ten years. But who else will document? TBCJ and TDCJ hide more that they reveal. Asked again and again—What else remains to be exposed? Like Achilles before Boagrius and David before Goliath, no one helped me face huge monsters of nefariousness! So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth … so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use. Victor Hugo, 1862 This book of mine is a Les Misérables of similar passion. This seems to be the most extensive exposure of religious abuse and nefariousness inside prison in the criminological literature. Much more work needs to be done. Evangelical Ironies?—I am one, though less than decades ago, departing from Fundamentalism over 30 years ago. Later, we compare it and Liberalism. Yet it has been my experience over the last 40 years that fewer Evangelicals expose their own. While none are fault-free, reading liberal Alan Dershowitz helped me see another sweeping irony thru this book: Evangelicals often consider themselves ethically superior, where herein several are far from ethical and a few nefarious, at times criminal. Irony?—TDCJ’s Prison Scam is rooted in the most radical segment of Evangelicalism while dependent upon lies and run by TDCJ staff Evangelicals who for over a decade were as unethical as hell! Writing this book took a heavy toll, depressed me often, affected my attitude—so personal—then, the last year refining this Second Edition took more from my soul. Herein are over a thousand refinements, and over 100 updates that further enhance the main themes and exposures. Exposing the abuse was hard. In 1999, I feared asking for my first Open Records request. I was persecuted for my 50-page Faith-Based Letter in 2011, exposing orders to exponentially increase Protestant dominance. When my life was threatened by a few rotten persons—Michael Upshaw, Marvin Dunbar, Richard Alford, and others—I took up my pen and documented in volumes 3–6 crystal clear treason in TDCJ. TDCJ Director Bryan Collier could have made things right in July 2012, when I tried to see him with a flash drive of the corruption at the Polunsky Prison. Soon, Warden Richard Alford—lying—forced my retirement as he protected his favorite staffer violating policy every day for years. IF Alford had been honorable, I would’ve never dug this deep. Like Joseph, the evil which Alford and his master Upshaw designed for me helped fuel this ten-year odyssey of evidence-based cover ups. After multiple exposures, violations continue today in 2023 in the Polunsky Chapel—unbelievable!—now this book. Truly, my pain clouds my objectivity. Painful passion impelled too. At least I was not a coward and silent. Herein is also the pain of others. TBCJ Irony?—most of the TBCJ are lawyers and likely all are Evangelicals, but they have been silent to a horde of ethical and legal entanglements. Most prison stakeholders are either Liberal or Conservative, and few read the other side. Herein, ignorance wreaks havoc on religion in prison.