Texas Letters is a growing assemblage of raw, unedited, and unconstrained letters by prisoners serving time in solitary confinement in Texas.

Join us Friday evening at 7PM for a talk about the issue of solitary confinement and the prison system. When he was 18 Joe Salinas found himself working for in Texas prisons as a Correctional Officer first before making rank through Captain. He worked for Internal Affairs/Gang Intelligence and has some terrific insight into the issue of solitary confinement.

Jason Hernandez was in solitary confinement for over 11 years within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and will be talking about his first-hand experience with the torture that is 22-24 hour-a-day isolation.

Free open bar with wines courtesy of our friends at Chateau Wright Winery

TEXAS LETTERS is an ongoing anthological work revolving around lives spent in solitary confinement in Texas. At the heart of this journey is the notion of the misuse of power: a gross violation of human rights that invariably leads to anxiety, panic, rage, paranoia, hallucinations, and, in some cases, suicide. A collective work, it explores the loss of sanity, humanness, and, oftentimes, hope through the personal writings of a diverse and growing ensemble of prisoners who have spent months, years, and sometimes decades within the bowels of these harsh and unrelenting conditions.