Second Edition (May 2023) When Texas Prison Scams Religion Texas Board of Criminal Justice's 25-Year Legacy of Cover Ups A Dissertation on Trust & Evangelical Naïveté Stop the Fools' Parade of State Ordination of Child Torturers & the Executive Culture Cultivating This for 25 Years--Lately Led by Bryan Collier Michael G. Maness   Volume 7. Killing Professional Chaplaincy Series >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >    <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <  ~ 105 Letters to Major Stakeholders in Prison Efficacy ~ ~  New Preface & Full Tables of Contents   ~ Full Annotated Bibliography  ~  Eratta PDF ~  "16 Killings" Letter to 100+ Stakeholders 9-20-23  ~  "TDCJ Delusion Deposition" Letter 1-15-24 to 115 Stakeholders most comprehensive collection of documents of nefariousness in TDCJ's Programs Division  over 30 years in Texas history   "TDCJ Delusion Letter II--Collier Special" 4-1-24 to 115 Stakeholders TDCJ Dir. Bryan Collier is planning to retire soon under the delusion of honor, largely due to the TBCJ's refusal to hold Collier accountable for nefarious by several TDCJ officials, some going back 30 years, as Collier & TBCJ model the TDCJ after the most scandal-ridden warden in penal history ~  see tracking for 100+ here  ~ ~  2024 Open Records Request for Lockdown Statistics/Reports  ~ ~  65+ Areas for MORE Grant-funded Study or Disseratations ~ ^ Click to See Hi-Res Cover ^ Email Maness3@att.net >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >    <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <  ^ click to see larger ^  >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >    <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <                                     Endorsements      "The book is clearly one of the most unique and interesting books I have ever read about religion in prison.  What is the best part of the book is the extensive research and citation list that is included.  It includes probably every legitimate cite about the subject that has been written in the last 50 years. 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Crtique of The Harbinger (2012) by Jonathan Cahn ... 263  Chapter 8.  Religion Not Against Science … Religion the Mother of Morals & Virtue ... 256 Chapter 9.  Evangelicalism’s Fight for Brains & Survival—TDCJ too  ... 275 Chapter 10.  Christian Dominionism’s Concentric Circles of Exclusivity  ... 318 Chapter 11.  U.S. & Texas Constitutions Against the Heart of Texas Foundation  ... 335 BOOK 4.  Culture of Norwood’s Tragedy, Marriage, & Incapacity for PEER Anything     > TDCJ’s WORST Peer Program     > Trust Is the Engine of Civilization, and Naïve Trust Delays Maturity  ... 348 Chapter 12.  Norwood’s Message & Dog that Didn’t Bark  ... 349 Chapter 13.  Dr. Brenna Whitley-Norwood & Erik Erikson’s Eight Stages  ... 383 Chapter 14.  Norwood’s Old-Young Marriage versus SBC Baptist Standards ... 401 BOOK 5.  Prisonization Confounds Culture &  Kills Authenticity of Favored Faith     > TDCJ’s ASSAULT on Authentic Faith     > Trust Is the Engine of Civilization, and Misplaced Trust Confounds Mentoring ... 422 Chapter 15.  “Ghost” of Prison, Trust the Engine of Civilization, & “Prisonization” ... 423 Chapter 16.  Fairness & Authenticity Flies Away with Indenturing Prisoners  ... 459 Chapter 17.  Chaplaincy—Transparency—Freedom of Speech—Soul of the Prison ... 471 BOOK 6.  Prison Rehabilitation Culture vs. Big Bucks     > TDCJ’s WORST Integrity Compromises      > Trust Is the Engine of Civilization, and Compromised Trust Inhibits Honesty  ... 488 Chapter 18.  Compromised TBCJ Pastor Larry Miles & RPD Sleight of Hand Again ... 489 See Open Records response--No Volunteer Stats for Miles, yet he is said by TDCJ's legal to have access, confirming zero accountability.   www.PreciousHeart.net/Miles-No-Stats.pdf Chapter 19.  Federal Mandates & TDCJ’s Gordian Knot of Entanglement ... 504 Chapter 20.  Big Bucks & Political Capital Cutting Up Integrity  ... 518 Chapter 21.  Marketers vs. True Reformers in Prison Rehabilitation History  ... 546 BOOK 7.  Psychopath’s Golden Goose Culture, Masturbating Ministers, Frog-to-Prince Studies    > TDCJ’s Ugly HOSTILITY to History & Analysis      > Trust Is the Engine of Civilization, and Twisting Trust for Sex or Science Sickens All ... 570 Chapter 22.  Don’t Blame the Lifers for Guarding Their Golden Goose Farm  ... 571 Chapter 23.  Rape, Sex, Masturbating Ministers, & the Madman  ...  585 Chapter 24.  ISR Johnson’s Team Kisses a Frog into a Prince—Twice  ...  642 Chapter 25.  Crying in the Chapel  ...  686 Cultural Conclusion … Fairness—Open Prisons or Abolish Many IF  ... 702 The End – Facilitate Religion Fairly  ... 714 Appendix 1.  Seminary Speaker Transcripts  ... 716 See transcripts here:  www.PreciousHeart.net/Appendix-1-Transcripts.pdf  è Introduction to Transcripts The online PDF has active links to their videos and other sites. We planned to include the full transcripts, but it ran to over 100 pages. We wanted to preserve them, in case the hosts decided to delete the videos after this book’s exposures, not unreasonable if one views the docs on cover up and ignorance on psychopathy. On the NOBTS upload, their naïveté is scary: after 20 years, they chose Biermann from hundreds. The five NOBTS videos were uploaded to YouTube by Claude V. King, which adds naïveté. Of all, Biermann exhibits the marks of a psychopath: absence of empathy, poorest pastoral care, and more, revealing the 20-year-old NOBTS’s deep naïveté on all three: psychopathy, genuine empathy, and quality pastoral care.  Terrible seminary naïveté! 1.  Texas Gov. Rick Perry Endorses Seminary Program, 9-18-2012, 408 views,  www.YouTube.com/watch?v=ZwwEbJ8fzZQ&t=5s, accessed on 11-10-2020.   2.  Grove Norwood – 2014 at Freedom Center Church, Missouri City, Texas, 11-14-2014, 118 views, www.YouTube.com/watch?v=ECh2jV2S30A, Norwood  begins at 35:30, accessed at 2-13-2021; about halfway, he shows a video from Four Country Reporter that by got 220,289 views, 731 likes, https://youtu.be/m7Pk2hC3hoM, accessed 3-1-21. 3.  Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick at 2016 HOTF Fundraiser Banquet, Nov 18, 2016, views 202, www.YouTube.com/watch?v=FUpmiU33A1s, accessed 2-13-21. 4.  Exec. Dir. Bryan Collier at 2016 HOTF Fundraiser Banquet, Nov 18, 2016, 344 views, www.YouTube.com/watch?v=TVP-6HJqWYU, accessed 2-13-6-21. 5.  Coffield Warden Jeffrey Catoe at 2016 HOTF Fundraiser Banquet, 11-18-16, https://youtu.be/ELx7l_okuEw, accessed 12-3-21.  6.  Warden Cain 2010 interview with Sheila Hoekstra at Calvin College’s Inner Compass “Bringing Hope to Prison,” www.YouTube.com/watch?v=zyTfNN8d27k, 27,033 views, 205 likes, accessed 3-7-21. In 2014, Hoogstra became president of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities, www.CCCU.org.  7.  Warden Cain at 2015 “Stronger” Men’s Conference at Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas 3-28-2015, https://youtu.be/Tc0eiCgKHt8, 5,167 views, accessed 3-1-21. 8.  Warden Cain at 2016 Florida Justice Summit V in Florida, 4-14-2016, www.YouTube.com/watch?v=DTvX3UoeNqk, 3,345 views, accessed 3-1-21. 9.  NOBTS Professor John Robson 2017 Seminary Promo Part 1:  Professor John Robson, Dir. of NOBTS Extension at Angola: Robson at https://vimeo.com/217559694, all at https://vimeo.com/217549452, accessed on 2-13-21, uploaded from LifeWay Christian Resources by Claude V. King, 5-15-17. Part 2:  Dannie K. Johnson, https://vimeo.com/217575725, accessed 3-14-21. Part 3:  Kyle M. Hebert, https://vimeo.com/217575497, accessed 3-14-21. Part 4:  Stanton Easley, https://vimeo.com/217577462, accessed 3-14-21. Part 5:  Donald Biermann , https://vimeo.com/217575624, accessed 3-14-21. 10.  Prof. Byron Johnson radio interview with Neil Stavem on 8-29-16, https://myfaithradio.com/2016/impact-inmate-led-prison-ministry, accessed 3-3-21.   Appendix 2.  “Fall of Burl Cain … Last Side Deal Led to Undoing” —Whole Article  ... 717 reprinted with permission in the book, Gordon Russell and Maya Lau“Fall of Burl Cain: How 1 Last Side Deal Led to Angola Warden’s Undoing,” The Advocate (Dec. 15, 2015; updated May 20, 2020): which also has a dozen links to previous articles by Russell and Lau on other scandals, TBCJ's and TDCJ Exec. Director Bryan Collier’s model for TDCJ.       See also James Ridgeway's “God’s Own Warden,” Mother Jones (July/August 2011), “If you ever find yourself inside Louisiana’s Angola prison, Burl Cain will make sure you find Jesus—or regret ever crossing his path.”—which Cain slammed in speeches. Appendix 3.  Experiencing God Phenomenon Not that Extraordinary  ... 723 Appendix 4.  Frog Turns into a Prince versus 75 Professors of Statistics  ... 724 Appendix 5.  Two Messages from Warden Gideon Haynes, 1868  ... 728 Appendix 6.  The Angolite Articles of Note  ... 729 Appendix The LAST:   Revolutionize the Prison Culture—                           100,000 Mothers’ 1% Certainty Parole Option  ... 734 Bibliography & Resources  ... 739 Index of People  ... 804 LAST WORD—Fantasies Die Hard!  ... 819 Ode to the Oddities of Outing a Few Ornery TDCJ Outlaws  ... 820 Other Books by Author   ... 821    New Preface & Full Tables of Contents   Full Annotated Bibliography   65+ Areas for More Grant-funded Study or Disseratation Trust Is the Engine of Civilization ^ click to see larger * Chart 13. Concentric Cirlces of Christian Exclusivity in First & Second Edition of When Texas Prison Scams Religion New Preface & Full Tables of Contents   Full Annotated Bibliography ~  Eratta PDF  65+ Areas for More Grant-funded Study or Disseratation ~  "16 Killings" Letter to 100+ Stakeholders - 16 Killings in TDCJ 9-20-2023  ~ and another killing right after systemwide lockdown ~ unbelievable  "TDCJ Delusion Deposition" Letter 1-15-24 to 115 Stakeholders outline of 25 years of documents of nefariousness, esp. in Programs Division directed to new TBCJ Chairman Eric Nichols   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >    <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   < ^ click to see larger ^  >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >    <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   < ~ 105 Letters to Major Stakeholders in Prison Efficacy ~ "16 Killings" Letter to 100+ Stakeholders - 16 Killings in TDCJ 9-20-2023  and another killing right after systemwide lockdown ~ unbelievable  "TDCJ Delusion Deposition" Letter 1-15-24 to 115 Stakeholders outline of 25 years of documents of nefariousness, esp. in Programs Division directed to new TBCJ Chairman Eric Nichols   Appendix 3. Experiencing God Phenomenon Not that Extraordinary  Chapter 7.H. Evangelical Failures:  4. Crtique of The Harbinger (2012) by Jonathan Cahn .... Killing Professional Chaplaincy Series After dozens of letters, 100s of Open Record requests, three huge books documenting with zero response from major players, what is TDCJ Exec. Dir. Bryan Collier really covering up? . Volume 1.  2001 – Chaplain Professional Equity and Market Study w Ethical Violations Timeline, www.PreciousHeart.net/chaplaincy/01-Chaplain_Pt_2_Timeline_2001.pdf, with four TDCJ chaplains, I personally delivered this 100-page treatise to TDCJ Exec. Dir. Gary Johnson that documented many unethical business practices.  It had much of the 2000 Chaplain Professional Equity proposal we used in the 2001 Texas Legislature to gain our first pay raise in 40-plus years, yet with a critical timeline of unethical tweaking of the Chaplaincy Director's job to suit favored applicants, pages 54-65. Volume 2.  2012 - Faith-Based Housing Letter, www.PreciousHeart.net/Maness-Faith-Based-Housing.pdf, heartfelt 50-page letter to Brad Livingston asking him to meet with a Barry Lynn of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State. It exposes several ethical violations and is the first exposure of the unconstitutional nature of the Seminary Scam. Soon after this, I was persecuted for whistleblowing and forced to retire. Volume 3.  2013 - TDCJ Book of Secrets on the Longest Cover Up in TDCJ History: Case of the Enchanting Chaplain, 700 pp., 139 MBs, first 100 pages documented how I was set up with falsified documents, then the rest details the vast policy violations at the Polunsky Unit and Michael Upshaw’s cleaning of contraband, clearing of violators, and more. Included were two CDs and a DVD with videos and dozen recorded interviews!  Hard copies to Livingston, OIG, and Texas AG. See Bryan Collier's three-sentence reply here: Collier-01-21-14-Nothing. Volume 4.  2015 – How We Saved Texas Prison Chaplaincy 2011—Immeasurable Value of Religion, Volunteers, and Their Chaplains, Forewords by Jerry A. Madden, senior fellow for Right on Crime and 2011 chairman of the Texas House Corrections Committee, and Carol S. Vance, former chairman of Texas Board of Criminal Justice and Harris County District Attorney (1966-79) (AuthorHouse, 2015; 394 pp.), www.preciousheart.net/Saved. We networked across Texas to stop the deletion of TDCJ Chaplaincy which was dead on arrival in the 2011 legislature. In a fight, we saved the entire budget. The appendices show Chaplaincy recovers its operating costs several times over and is the most productive program in RPD: “Chaplains facilitate the greatest source for change and solace in human history—Religion.” Volume 5.  2017 - TDCJ Book of Secrets Part 2, Goodman Unit Hiring Scam, www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/GoodmanUnit2017.pdf, 180-pg, most detailed audit of a hiring package in TDCJ history showing multiple violations. A white warden hired a white career laundry man over black U.S. Army combat veteran career chaplain! Volume 6.  2019 - TDCJ Deep State Report:  Case of the Collared Fox, www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/TDCJ-OIG-2019.pdf, 177-page    - Cover Letters of 1st, 2nd, & 3rd sends to Bryan Collier & 50+ TX Leaders, Jurists, and District Attorneys, www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/Big-50-Send.pdf  Volume 7.  Revised 2023 - When Texas Prison Scams Religion--TBCJ's 25-year Legacy of Cover Ups, 824 pages, documented from 100's of open record requests and 1,000-plus sources.     ~ 105 Letters to Major Stakeholders in Prison Efficacy ~ ~  "16 Killings" Letter to 100+ Stakeholders - 16 Killings in TDCJ 9-20-2023  ~ and another killing right after systemwide lockdown ~ unbelievable ~   ~  ~  ~  ~ TDCJ Psychiatric Care Not Documented ... other Oddities No #s in TDCJ for ASPD! ... No #s on How Many Prisoners have Antisocial Personality Disorders in TDCJ.  I asked on 3-25-21 “How many prisoners in TDCJ are diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder?” On 4-20-21, the response was “We have no responsive information.” TBCJ has not made actionable one single public comment in 12-plus years, www.PreciousHeart.net/chaplaincy/TBCJ_2007-2019.pdf    ~   ~  ~  ~  ~ ~  Full Contents Here  ~ ~  Bibliography  ~ ~  65+ Areas for MORE Grant-funded Study or Disseratations ~ ~   ~  ~  ~  ~ >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >    <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   < The Angolite Articles of Note The Angolite is an award-winning prisoner-run quarterly magazine of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola, the largest maximmum security prison in the USA, with the largest number of prisoners serving life. 1979 - Wilbert Rideau and Billy Sinclair, “The Sexual Jungle,” The Angolite (Nov.–Dec., 1979). The article has been reprinted in all four editions of Burk Foster, Wilbert Rideau, and Douglas Dennis, eds., The Wall Is Strong: Corrections in Louisiana (Lafayette: Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1991, 4th ed. 2014; 318 pp.), chapter 15, pages 151–176; and in Wilbert Rideau and Ron Wikberg, Life Sentences: Rage and Survival Behind Bars (New York: Random House, 1992), book two, chapter 4, 73–107.  1981 - Wilbert Rideau, “Religion in Prison,” The Angolite  (Jan/Feb 1981): 21–56. Though titled “Religion in Prison,” the article opens with a vivid description in italics that teases us with a vision of contrasts worthy of Charles Dickens and unique in the literature. Nowhere have I found such a soul-searching piece. Upon contacting The Angolite, they said back then they did not list the authors’ names, but it sounds like Wilbert Rideau. A much more substantive insight into prison than The Angola Prison Seminary million-dollar study. 1980 - Wilbert Rideau, “The Soul-Savers,” The Angolite 20, (July/Aug 1980): 9–12, on Chuck Colson’s Prison Fellowship week-long program. 1982 - Wilbert Rideau, “Religion in Prison: A Miracle of Faith,” The Angolite 7, No. 2 (March/April 1982): 60–65, on Rev. Allen Brown, Church of God in Christ, on prison Elijah Victor Pickett (25 years in) demon driven out of Pickett. 1982 - Wilbert Rideau, “Religion in Prison: A Beacon of Promise,” The Angolite 7, No. 3 (May/June 1982): 23–28, on Chaplain Joseph Wilson, new chapel construction with Chuck Colson and guests. 1983 - Wilbert Rideau, “Strange Bedfellows,” The Angolite 8, No. 1 (Jan/Feb 1983): 25–40, on “natural” vs. “prison politician” on manipulation by prisoners on prisoners and Christians vs. Muslims. 1985 - Tommy Mason, “Religion in Prison: The Carlin Revival,” The Angolite 10, No. 2 (March/April 1985): 61–67, on Dr. Paul Carlin three-day prison saturation and revival, 1985 - Tommy Mason, “Religion in Prison: A Full Gospel Affair,” The Angolite 10, No. 2 (March/April 1985): 68–71, on Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship in prison and their 4th Annual Banquet, speaker Michael O’Neal. 1985 - Wilbert Rideau, “Religion in Prison: The Muslims,” The Angolite 10, No. 4 (Jul/Aug 1985): 46–50, first sentence, “Of all the religious faiths, none has caused as much consternation among the nation’s penal authorities, nor paid as heavy a price for acceptance as a legitimate religion in the prison world, as the Islamic faith over the past three decades.” 1992 - Michael Glover, “The Religionists,” The Angolite 17, No. 4 (July/Aug 1992): 21–54. See link above and quotes. In just these few articles you can see a vast difference between pre- & post-Cain There is a great need for a grant-funded study on the pre- & post Cain Angolite, worth vastly more to criminology than million-dollar The Angola Prison Seminary. 1995 - Michael Glover, “The Christian Warden,” The Angolite 20, No. 2 (March/April 1995): 20–27, noted & linked above 6.4, after Warden Cain arrived in Feb. of 1995 to Angola. 1995 - Michael Glover, “Religion in Prison: The Spirit Moving,” The Angolite 20, No. 5 (Sept/Oct 1995): 54–58, on the Experiencing God “Prison-wide Bible Course” which Warden Burl Cain took himself, “In one of the first meetings he held after becoming warden Cain told the leaders, “We need to know what God wants us to do, and where God wants us to be. This course will help us to do that” (54). 1995 - Jesse Deters, “Religion in Prison: Masterlife Graduation,” The Angolite 20, No. 6 (Nov/Dec 1995): 66–71, on first graduation of 26 prisoners from the Masterlife Discipleship Training for Leaders, implemented by Chaplain Burnie Schmidt, with Jerry Potts leading from FBC Slaughter, LA,  Warden Cain arrived just a few months before in Feb. of 1995. 1998 - Steve Achord and Debbie Moore, “Graduation Day,” The Angolite 23, No. 1 (Jan/Feb 1998): 20–27, first graduation from NOBTS seminary program in Angola of 15 prisoners earning associate degree in pastoral ministries and one a diploma in pastoral ministries, with NOBTS President Chuck Kelley saying, “There is no life God cannot redeem.” Achord & Moore were both NOBTS employees. 2000 - Steve Quatrevingt, “Religion in Prison: A Leap of Faith,” The Angolite 25, No. 2 (March/April 2000): 46–61, on first graduation of the four-year degrees, 17 earning a bachelor of general studies, one bachelor of arts, and three an associate in pastoral ministries, with a history of the program’s beginning in connections with George Rountree and T. W. Terral. 2002 - Dale Gaudet, “Religion in Prison: Fishers of Men,” The Angolite 20, No. 2 (July/Aug 2002): 52–55, on graduation from NOBTS with 32 earning associate degrees, 27 bachelor degrees in Christian ministry.   2004 - Ronald Walker, “In Their Father’s House,” The Angolite 29, No. 4 & 5 (July/Aug 2004): 44–47, on Prison Fellowship Ministries and Forgiven Ministries hosting prisoner fathers and children. 2010 - Kyle Hebert, “The End … and the Beginning,” The Angolite 35, No. 3 (May/June 2010): 20–27, on the sixth graduation of the NOBTS program of 44 prisoners who earned associate degrees and 46 bachelor degrees in Christian ministry. 2011 - Kyle Hebert, “Legacies to Lives Well Lived,” The Angolite 36, No. 2 (March/April 2011): 8–11, on renaming of NOBTS extension center for to Joan Horner Center and the library the Dr. John MacArthur Pastor’s Library after philanthropist the late Joan Horner, founder and owner of Premier Jewelers in Dallas, and MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community church and president of The Master’s College and Seminary in Sun Valley, CA. 2016 - Jim Nguyen, “Joining the Education Hierarchy,” The Angolite 41, No. 3 & 4 (May/June 2016): 10–12, on the graduation from Baton Rouge Community College of 243 graduates including 68 high school equivalency diplomas and 139 vocational diplomas in 13 disciplines.  2021 - Jim Nguyen,  “Religion in Prison: Testable, Measurable, and Verifiable; Genter Ordained as Baptist Associations of Southeast Louisiana’s Newest Pastor.” The Angolite 46, No. 5 (Sept-Oct, 2021), 50–51. The article started in all caps:  “AN ORDINATION DISCERNMENT OF GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH’S INMATE ASSOCIATE pastor, Theodore Genter, was held at Angola’s New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) Joan Horner Extension Center in September. Members of the Baptist Associations of Southeast Louisiana (BASL), including Grace pastor Robert Hyde, NOBTS professors Scott Breeland and Joel Williams … NOBTS Director Ricky Sharky, attended to analyze Genter for validation.” Interestingly, after detailing his life as a Pagan until prison, “His conversion from Mormonism to traditional Christianity took place about a year into his incarceration. A man named Eddie Rose, an ordained minister who had fallen from grace, ministered to him and led him to Christ. Six months later, he received a revelation from God that he would become a pastor. He said that from that point he developed a deeper relationship with God but still deals with human weaknesses.” Not in the article is Genter’s crime and sentence: he was convicted of murdering Caryn Beth Capps (aka, Lydia Reinstein) and dumped her body in a dumpster; she was 21 and born in Dallas, Texas. She was 5’4” and about 100-110 pounds. His roommate testified that “Genter jumped on Lydia, pinning her hands with his legs and holding the pillow over her face…. Lydia stopped moving after a few minutes…. Genter then bent Lydia’s body, placed it in a garbage bag along with the blanket … tied the bag closed…. Genter left…. returned fifteen minutes later and told him there was a dumpster at a school on Nashville Avenue.” Portions of body were recovered from the local landfill. “The court sentenced him to life imprisonment at hard labor without benefits of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.” State of Louisiana v. Theodore Genter (No. 2003-KA-1987, decided 4-7-2004), https://caselaw.findlaw.com/la-court-of-appeal/1001976.html, wherein the Genter also threatened to kill another woman. Genter’s prisoner id # is 00454235. 2021 - John Corley, “Forgotten No More,” The Angolite 46, No. 5 (Sept-Oct, 2021), 50–51. “Two of Louisiana’s longest-serving inmates were released … in early October [2021] under new plea agreements offered through New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams’ office, Louis Mitchell, 74, and Leroy Grippen, 73, served a combined 103 years in prison prior to release orders issued by Criminal District Judge Nandi Campbell.” The strange and deplorable injustice goes like this: “Louisiana’s 10-6 rule for people sentenced to life in prison was born under statutory revisions in 1926 and lasted until it was official repealed by Act 490 of the 1979 Legislature. Unofficially, it had already been dead in practice for several years. By 1973, at the direction of Corrections Secretary Elayn Hunt, the warden of the penitentiary stopped making the necessary recommendations for release to the pardon board and, absent his needed support, the release process died.” The insightful article goes on to tell how the men sentenced to 10.5 years (10-6) were essentially “forgotten men” where their “precarious position” and “told that the old release system was administrative rather than a legal requirement.” That is, without the warden’s recommendation, they had no hope of release. What a terrible injustice—yet finally in 2021 and so long overdue they are released. 2021 - John Corley, “News Briefs: Ankle Angst,” The Angolite 46, No. 5 (Sept-Oct, 2021; 3–9), 9. See Kate Weisburd, et al, Electronic Prisons: The Operation of Ankle Monitoring in the Criminal Legal System (Washington, DC: George Washington University Law School, 2021; 51 pp.), https://issuu.com/gwlawpubs/docs/electronic-prisons-report?fr=sOGI5NDcxODg3. Weisburd is a law professor at GWU, and Corley is a prisoner editor in Angola.   2022 - Burk Foster“Parole: The First 100 Years in America,” The Angolite 47, No. 4 (July/August 2022): 24–33. 2022 - Leah Wang, “The Positive Impacts of Family Contact for Incarcerated People and Their Families,” The Angolite 47, No. 4 (July/August 2022): 34–37. Her hook was, “Fifty years of evidence of the benefits of family contact for incarcerated people."    ~ 105 Letters to Major Stakeholders in Prison Efficacy ~ ~  "16 Killings" Letter to 100+ Stakeholders - 16 Killings in TDCJ 9-20-2023  ~ and another killing right after systemwide lockdown ~ unbelievable   Trust Is the Engine of Civilization TDCJ Prison Seminary Scam Documents ...... Seminary Program Policy - outline of policy and agreement with SWBTS Field Ministry Policy, including sex offencers SWBTS Student Curriculum - dated 1-27-20, w list, one counseling class Field Ministry Handbook - for the chaplains and indentured prisoners       Norwood Emai on "42 Christ-Centered courses" - 2-28-23, consistent with 10-year focus    totally absent of neutrality ... dependent upon TDCJ lie of neutrality & cost Norwood Email on New Direction - 8-1-21, SWBTS tossed under the bus  Norwood Email Fundraiser for Christ - 8-20-22 & Letter arrived 9-22-22 - again, for 10 straight years, fundraising for endenturing prisoners for the Gospel, only TDCJ lies neutrality--email: "We have the direct privilege and calling to prepare men and women with long prison sentencesto go with the good news of Jesus Christ and serve others in his name."  With links to video testimonies with first names of TDCJ's Top Secret Field Ministers--kept secret with the support of Texas AG Ken Paxton's office on repeated Open Records requests.  Norwood Fund-raising Letter - 3-20-23 - again, 12 years bragging, "The State of Texas is unique in in all the world in accommodating this approach to prisoner rehabilitation." Norwood's HOTF, he says again, "is allowed to offer a Christ-centered course of study to long-term prisoners that results in the first men and women 'Field Ministers' in world prison history. What we are doing is unequaled anywhere in the world." < no doubt there, a great scam on Evangelicals taking advantage of vulnerable prisoners, at great state cost, Texas lying about neutrality. Norwood Fund-raising Letter - 4-24-23 - again, "Thanks to you, over 200 graduates are now serving out their long sentences as "Texas Field Ministers," and doing so in teams, in 42 Texas prisons. Thanks to you, our graduates have permission to minister freely all over those 42 prisons: they tell the hopeless that there is hope in Jesus Christ." And he lists three Southern Baptist Seminary professors as key teachers.  No question as to TDCJ lying about neutrality.  Norwood Fund-raising Letter - 9-17-23, again, 11 years running, clearly Evangelical Mission of students of college as TDCJ lies about neutrality, as HOTF seeks to raise money from naive evangelicals for a program TDCJ modelled after the most scandal-ridden warden in U.S. penal history.  Letter leads off:  "We consistently are experiencing the growth and depth of our students, of our faculty, and ofour college all around one mission—the Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20, "All authorityin heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations" and continues "Will you help us send Field Ministers to do the work of the Great Commission?.... A Field Minister is a man or woman with a long prison sentence [some psychopaths] in Texas who has the unique opportunity to be educated through the Heart of Texas Foundation College of Ministry [basic Bible study] and take boldly the gospel of Jesus Christ peer to peer in the darkest of places."   . NEW Field Ministry HOTF College Program NEW Curriculum Snapshot   Global Prison Seminaries Foundation July 2022 CHANGES Website, deletes its signature line capalizing upon a lie after this book was published and 400+ notified on the Ides of March 2022: "Angola, once known as the bloodiest prison in America, is now one of the safest and most peaceful prisons in the country. This transformation came about with what is now known as the Prison Seminary Model."   Field Minister Reports - OR Request and the reports by Seminary Field Ministers UTMB Open Records - No Stats on DSM Diagnoses, only after a half dozen emails, got number of psychotics. United National Marriage Patterns 2000 Heart of Texas Foundation Incorporation Papers  TDCJ-Seminary Memorandum of Understanding 2016 renewal of 2011  TDCJ Field Minister Official Job Descriptions Seminary / TDCJ Procedures  TDCJ Did Not Keep Letter of Termination to SWBTS  TDCJ Sought No Opinion on Constitutionality of Seminary  TDCJ Statistics for 12 Years ... or just the <Analysis Chart on 12 Years>    >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >    <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   < Applications of Note   C.F. Hazlewood TDCJ Application  www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/Timothy-Jones-TDCJ-App-7-2018.pdf www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/Rel-Serv-Apps-ALL.pdf  www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/Pierce-2000-TDCJ-Application.pdf www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/Rutledge-TDCJ-Apps-Promotions.pdf   Critical Audio Interview www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/08-Shawn-Wallace-TDCJ-Info-Officer-08-16-2013.MP3 – audio recording   TBCJ No Action on Public Comments in 12 Years & Word-frequency Analysis in 70 Minutes 2007-2019, chaplaincy nearly absent, and no action on any public statement, and more.   TDCJ 10-Year Disciplinary Report 7-25-2003 to 7-25-2013 - first one published in TDCJ History on 86,775 disciplinaries - NOT a SINGLE disciplinary for a warden, Reg. Dir. Michael Upshaw, or Chaplain Collier for the multitude of violations everyday at the Polunsky Chapel for 6 years ... fairness flew the coup at Polunsky Chaplain Equity TIMELINE April 2002 for Gary Johnson - a 100-page letter to Executive Director Gary Johnson in 2002, that four of us chaplains personally presented to Johnson that included many unethical business practices.  It contains much of the 2000 proposal, revised, and a critical TIMELINE of the unethical tweaking of the Chaplaincy Director's job description and much more.  A piece for the archives, if ever there was.  Pages 54-65 have timeline of unethical practices. Applications for Critical Chaplaincy Positions www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/Timothy-Jones-TDCJ-App-7-2018.pdf      > www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/Rel-Serv-Apps-ALL.pdf  www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/Pierce-2000-TDCJ-Application.pdf www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/Rutledge-TDCJ-Apps-Promotions.pdf   www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/08-Shawn-Wallace-TDCJ-Info-Officer-08-16-2013.MP3 – Critical Audio Recording OIG "Terrorist Threat" Investigation Maness for "Writing Books" ... 10-29-2012 Maness FAX to TDCJ Exec Dir & OIG on Polunsky Fiasco ... MP3 Interview with Shawn Wallace Exposing Conspiracy ORDERED by TBCJ Chairman Oliver Bell, Reg Dir Michael Upshaw, Marvin Dunbar Destroying Crime Scene Evidence ... UTMB's ZERO Statistics on $300+ Million Paid by TDCJ for Psych Services SHOCKER ... ...      Dan Patrick Donor Analysis - 01-2005 to 01-31-2021 Media Release Policy Fiasco - I was set up in 2011 for taking photos within policy, having the signed approval of the warden, but given a disciplinary for a contrived violation, all detailed in the 700-pg Book of Secrets (2013). As seen in this exchange, the media policy was confused, then an additional media form was created 12-12-2018    No JETS articles on Experiencing God - having had trouble finding academic articles/bookreviews to Blackaby's book, I asked the premier evangelical society for help: none. To my knowledge no conservative tenured professor of theology has weighed in on it in a formal paper. Most academics do not weigh in on popular books, especially elementary popular Bible studies. Yet, because of its unprecedented sales and odd theology, it is time for conservative and reformed theologians to weigh in too. And it is the requirement for prisoner to qualify for the NOBTS seminary in the Angola prison. Prison Fellowship Facebook Advertisement -- "Urgent Need Please Send Bibles" ... "The demand for Bibles and Christian content is at an all-time high." Phone Transcript Michael Maness & Grove Norwood, Phone Call, Sept. 8, 2021, 14:30     Baylor Study of Texas Prison Seminary:  Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson, Joshua Hays, Michael Hallett, and Grant Duwe, “Prisoners Helping Prisoners Change: A Study of Inmate Field Ministers Within Texas Prisons,” International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 64, No. 5 (April 2020): 470–497. Baylor Study of Angola Seminiary:  Michael Hallett, Joshua Hays, Bryon Johnson, Sung Joon Jang, and Grant Duwe, The Angola Prison Seminary: Effects of Faith-Based Ministry on Identity Transformation, Desistance, and Rehabilitation (NY: Routledge, 2017; 248 pp.).       No Number on How Many Prisoners Have Antisocial Personality Disorder in TDCJ - No #s in TDCJ for ASPD! ... I asked on 3-25-21 “How many prisoners in TDCJ are diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder?” On 4-20-21, the response was “We have no responsive information    Articles of Note David M. Reutter, “Thou Shalt Not: Sexual Misconduct by Prison and Jail Chaplains,” Prison Legal News 21, No. 9 (Sept. 2010): 1–9.  David M. Reutter, “Clergy Who Advocate for Prisoners Barred from Prisons and Jails,” Prison Legal News 21, No. 9 (Sept. 2010): 10–11. Stan Moody, “Chaplains Window Dressing in American Prisons,” personal letter (Manchester, ME: March 26, 2011; 2 pps; 207-626-0594), documenting harassment of chaplains who stand up for civil rights.   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >    <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <          "The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference."  Elie Wiesel chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust and helped plan the American memorial to the victims of the Holocaust; see his Report to the President on the President's Commission on the Holocaust (1979).           "Society wants men to be taught to use liberty wisely while deprived of it" (p. 11).  "I believe there is a treasure in the heart of every man if we can find it — if we can help him find it.  I believe this is the true way to fight crime" (p. 229, the last two sentences).  James V. Bennett, I Chose Prison (Alfred A. Knopf, 1970, 229p), Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons 1937 to 1964, during the time of the most substantial change in in-prison programming in the history of the world. >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >    <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <     ^ click to see larger ^  >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >   >    <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   <   < ~   ~  ~  ~  ~ ~  Full Contents Here  ~ ~  Bibliography  ~ ~  65+ Areas for More Grant-funded Study or Disseratations ~   ~  "16 Killings" Letter to 100+ Stakeholders - 16 Killings in TDCJ 9-20-2023  ~ and another killing right after systemwide lockdown ~ unbelievable  "TDCJ Delusion Deposition" Letter 1-15-24 to 115 Stakeholders outline of 25 years of documents of nefariousness, esp. in Programs Division directed to new TBCJ Chairman Eric Nichols ~   ~  ~  ~  ~

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