EX-INMATES AREN'T ALL BAD

This really neat guy told me that he tried to post this comment but it wouldn't work,so I thought I would post it for him.It was so nice I thought I would make sure it got posted:
Hi Tammi,
I just wanted to say hello. I was in blogger.com the other night and just happened to link to your site and read about your experiences in prison. It was a great article. I thought it was so good that i linked to your homepage and then to other sites where you told about what life was like for you in TDCJ. A friend of mine was sentenced to two years and ended up serving her time in Hobby Unit. I think she ended up serving a year total, including jail time, and then another year on parole. She was released in 2001. I met her on here shortly after she got out . One night we were in yahoo chatting or playing a game or something and she mentioned that she had been in prison. I asked her a few questions about it... I can't remember exactly what, but as she answered my questions and told me about what she went through. I couldn't believe what i was hearing. I guess that i was under the impression that women's prisons were kind of like a school campus. But obviously in Texas that's not the case.
We chatted and talked about it for about a year. At first I thought that she would be uncomfortable talking about it or answering my questions, but i asked her if she was and she told me that it actually helped her to talk about it with someone. Family members and friends tended to tell her to move on / try to forget about it, and i guess that in her caset she couldn't. She was still on parole when we first became friends so i'm sure that the fear of going back was always there. I used to feel bad for her because she'd dream about being back inside or having to go back.... When i read your blogger article (and the other things you wrote) I was amazed at how similar your experiences were. She wasn't in the same prison or in as long as you were, but still so much of what you wrote was like almost exactly the same.... She even worked in maintenance.
But everything that she told me .. from transport to the dogpound to reception to her unit to her discharge to having nightmares, is the same.
I think i read where you kept a journal ... That's awesome.. My friend had me save the things that she wrote to me.. emails and things like that, because i used to tell her that she should write a book... And she said she might, but i have to help her..I still have her stuff saved on my old computer. She still send me emails kidding me about not losing it... But really, it's great that you wrote it all down in a journal.
I hope that you don't mind me emailing you,your comment place wouldn't work. it's just that your story is so much like hers.
Good luck with everything.
Have a good weekend,
Jack