I have been a chaplain at the Cameron County Women's Jail for nearly seven years. All that really means is that once a week I go for an hour to pray for anyone who wants prayer. Sometimes I meet with women privately for counseling and monthly I bring some of my students from Valley Christian High School to pray with me. My girls love the women and often end up singing to them and writing to them later.Read more

Since Mr. Voorhees wrote this letter last year, two young inmates have died in custody in this same jail just hours after being arrested, and he suspects ill treatment in those cases as well. Here he carefully documents the reports of brutal physical attacks, pepper spray and other illegal actions against Abilene inmates. -Diana Claitor

September 8, 2006
Dear Mr. Attorney General:Read more

At the time of her arrest, Diane was wanted in Texas on Crimial Trespassing charges from 2002, when she had climbed a tower at Dow Chemical to protest the company's continued irresponsibility following its 1984 chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, where 150,000 people were poisoned. The following is a January 2006 letter Diane wrote to the Sheriff of Victoria county, T. Michael O'Connor.Read more