TellMyStory

In 2022 at Dooly prison, I watched a warden silently order gang members to beat a man for speaking the truth. The officer’s threat I heard recently brought it all back—this system of collusion is everywhere.

A man spent eleven years in prison on two invalid convictions, facing fraudulent threats, coerced pleas, and a void mistrial. While incarcerated, he was repeatedly infected with Legionella from contaminated water, leading to permanent injury.

After reading O.C.G.A. 17-9-4, I believed I had a clear path to challenge a void count in my indictment. But the courts denied my motions, and a recused judge ruled on my case. Years later, I still seek answers.

After a year without seeing the sunset from my cell window, I finally witness it again—a brilliant fireball of orange, red, and purple. This daily blessing reminds me of God’s beauty even after decades inside.

Without belief and faith in God, my prison life would be a living hell. Faith brings stability, freedom, and the confidence that God governs for my good.

In the mid-1990s at Georgia State Prison, a prisoner’s daily routine with alcohol-based window cleaner ‘Blue Duck’ leads to an unexpected and humorous struggle. This story captures a moment of prison life before gangs and modern security measures.

Elbert Walker Jr. describes the burden of believing he is held in violation of the law, with evidence of incorrect legal advice and a psychologist’s finding of incompetence, yet receiving no relief. He appeals for justice and reform.

Bitten twice by brown recluse spiders while incarcerated in Georgia prisons, the author describes the painful reality of venomous spider encounters, medical responses, and the resourcefulness required to survive.

In 1994, I was locked down 24-7 at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, where men flung feces and boiling baby oil. The federal court fined offenders, but nothing stopped the seriously mentally ill like ‘Cuba,’ released from a Cuban psychiatric institution into a concrete isolation cell.

Forced into running phone scam operations by gang members inside Georgia prisons, this inmate reveals how state negligence and corruption enabled hundreds of thousands in fraud. His journey from addiction to coercion to resistance exposes the dark reality of institutional control.