Let the record reflect, the Regional IV Maintenance Manager came in last night and took pictures of everything in the Shower area that needed to be fixed and they came in today and fixed most of everything that was broke today. They are coming back tomorrow to fixed the rest of it.

Still make sure to send the complaint in to the Texas Senate, State Representative, Inspector General, and to the Tyler Texas United States District Court about the RUIZ V. ESTELL Class Action Civil Rights Violation Law Suit about the cruel and unusual prison living conditions, TB out break, excessive drug use, mental health crisis, shortness of TDCJ-ID and UTMB Staff whom does not have the man power they need to maintain or operate an overcrowded Texas Prison system.

 As for the other situation I mentioned to you today about the Management Therapeutic Community In-Prison Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Treatment Programs designed for the purpose of providing Texas State Prison Inmates with the tools and resources they will need to reintegrate back into society, the Counselors whom are assigned to facilitate these programs are being forced to work with nothing that is required to help us reintegrate back into society. 

What is being discovered is that, because of the differences in the rules, regulations, statues,and Protocols of State, Federal, Legislative, Judicial, and Executive Branch of Government regarding the release of information, these Counselors are being required to work with little to no information at all regarding the history and current status of the Inmate. 

They are required to generate their own information from scratch. [Example]: today I was interviewed by an Intake FI-6 R (Rehabilitation Program) Counselor and the questions that she was required to ask me about was from everything about my entire history of child hood up until the current day, drug use, alcohol use, mother, father, brother, sister, mental issues, suicide, etc, etc. 

All of this information is already in the files of the Judicial and Executive Branch of Government's Computer File Data Base and could have easily been accessed by the click of a bottom. But no, by policy, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles who put us here in these programs and the TDCJ-ID Administration Division, are not allowed to give their information out to these Counselors regarding an Inmates current parole release status. 

If an Inmate has already completed the program and does not have a parole release date automatically placed on the computer by the Parole Board, the Counselors can not pick up a phone nor contact anybody about why the Inmate is still being held in prison? With this in mind, some Inmates are being held two and three months after completing the program.

 My point to you is this, out side of these Counselors being forced to work in unsanitary prison conditions, cold and hot temperatures, and bad Inmate living conditions, these Counselors are being used and taken full advantage of by the Executive and Administrative Branches of Government. With this in mind, this is what we do, send out an Email to all Legislative and Executive Branch of Government, Texas Governor, Senate, State Representatives, Health Director, and Director of TDCJ-ID and demonstrate to them: 

1. the lack of funds being provided to the rehabilitation division to operate these rehabilitation programs, 2. the lack of communication between the Parole Board, TDCJ-ID, the Rehabilitation Divisions and other outside work forces agencies, 3. the lack of computer systems to access jobs, housing and other information, Incentive In-Prison Housng Environment, Recreation, and other incentatives for the rehabilitation programs to assist the Inmate with their journey of reintegrating back into society, 4. better pay for all Rehabilitation Program Counselors and more Staff Counselors.

 With this in mind, we are demanding for the State to give us what we need. End P1.