Behind the Walls: A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates

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211 Index A administrative segregation, 31–37 See also punitive segregation avoiding “riding,” 132 Echo privileges, 150 food and, 15, 36 Hispanic gang population, 129 visitation privileges, 34, 36, 72, 74 AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), 46–48 “riding” and, 62 Allred High Security Units, 31 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 163 B Bean, Roy, 103 Beto I Unit, 8 Bias, Michael, 42 Bibles in living quarters, 11 Bishop, William, 42 black market, 63 See also contraband Board of Classification, 138 books and magazines See also education; legal resource materials; library encouraging educational pursuits, 158–59 library privileges, 81–84 sending to inmates, 65–66, 67–68 “building tenders,” 83, 123, 127, 128, 129 Burger, Warren, 165 Bush, George W., 89–90 Byrd Unit, 1 C calling privileges, 75 Career and Technical Education (CTE), 98–100 Carol Vance Unit, 77 case (disciplinary), 103 cells, 7–11 assignment to, 2 cleaning, 107 for HIV/AIDS infected inmates, 48 “piddling,” 37, 85–88 Central Unit, 8 chaplain and family emergency furloughs, 144, 145 cigarettes, 63, 115, 119–22 Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE), 163 civil rights of convicts, 165 class, 136–37 Clemens Unit, 8, 123 Clements Unit, 31 clothing, 19–22 during lockdown, 116 washing, 11, 20, 106–7 Cockrell, Janie, 126 Coffield Unit, 8, 27, 32, 123 commissary privileges in administrative segregation, 34 discipline and, 105 lockdown status and, 116 money for, 59–60 Committee on the Mentally Ill Behind Bars, 48 computer access, 28 conjugal visits, 71 See also visitation privileges * Note: Page numbers in bold refer to main topics 212 Index Connally Seven, 163, 164 Connally Unit, 163 contraband, 59, 63, 107, 116 See also black market Coordinator of Contagious/Infectious Diseases (CID), 47 Correctional Managed Health Care Advisory Committee, 40 correspondence administrative segregation and, 37 correspondence courses, 102, 159 importance of, 157 supplies, 59, 60, 66 craft shop, 85–88 privileged access to, 107 staff shortages and, 164 Creating Unnecessary Noise Rule, 108 Cristo, Gilberto, 42 custody levels determined in Diagnostic Unit, 3–4 D Darrington Unit, 8, 123 dayrooms, 51–53, 105 death of inmates by guards, 109, 110 homicides, 129 notification of family, 146 problems in medical care, 41–42 “riding,” 61 senior citizens, 49 special-needs parole, 146 suicides, 125–26 violence in prisons, 124–25 Death Row, 74 Diagnostic Unit, 1–6 old-style construction, 8 religious preferences, 77–78 visitation privileges, 71, 72 work assignment restrictions, 28 Director of Health Services, 47–48 Director of Preventive Health, 47–48 Director’s Review Committee, 68 discharge, 136, 138 discipline, 103–13 for assault and murder, 124–25 case (disciplinary), 103 education and, 99 good time and, 138 library privileges, 81 meal times, 15, 16 parole considerations, 154 punishment, 104–5, 111 recreation and, 56 visitation privileges and, 72 Discretionary Mandatory Discharge, 136 Disrespectful Attitude Rule, 104, 108 dormitories See also living quarters dayrooms and, 53 living quarters, 9–10 drugs, 89–92, 119–22 black market, 63 dealing, 119–22 hepatitis C and, 48 HIV/AIDS and, 46 in living quarters, 8 lockdowns to search for, 115 medical care and, 40 substance abuse counseling, 3, 34, 89–92 tobacco, 63, 115, 119–22 visiting inmates, 73 due process in segregation, 33 E Eastham Unit, 8, 32, 123 Echo, 149–51 education, 95–102 See also books and magazines in administrative segregation, 34 college courses, 100–102, 159 correspondence courses, 102, 159 Index 213 Diagnostic Unit, 3 encouraging inmates in, 140, 158– 59 GED, 96–98, 99 HIV/AIDS programs, 48 library privileges, 82–83 low priority of, 3 vocational courses, 98–100 Ellis Unit, 8, 32, 123 emergencies, 143–46 employment See also work employers’ visitation privileges, 74 parole packet, 140–41 Estelle, W. J., 123, 128, 129 Estelle Unit, 8, 31, 91 exercise, 55, 105, 164 extortion, 61–62 F Failure to Complete a Reasonable Amount of Work Rule, 108 family emergencies, 143–46, 157 emotional issues of inmates, 159–62 responsibility and assistance of, 154, 156–63 unit assignments of inmates, 5 Ferguson Unit, 8, 129 fighting discipline and, 106 racial issues, 52 “riding” and, 61–63 food, 13–17 in administrative segregation, 15, 36 in commissary, 59 denying food to inmates, 16 food loaf, 15, 37 gambling for, 61 during lockdown, 115, 116 in punitive segregation, 32 visitation privileges, 73 friends, responsibility and assistance of, 154, 156–63 furloughs, 143–46 G gambling, 60–61...