Fort Bend County Jail Analysis

While in jail, I had a spiritual awakening. I met a positive brother by the name of Jamal who befriended me early at my stay in the Fort Bend County Jail. Jamal was well in his late fifty’s and he was one of the first inmates to speak to me when I entered the tank. Jamal was arrested and charged for aggravated assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon and received a fifteen-year sentence. He was currently waiting on chain to go to the Texas Department of Corrections also known as TDC. Jamal was deep into the black power movement and was a strong advocate for establishing a better way of thinking. We studied and talked about everything under the sun together from Christianity, The Nation of Islam, The Five Percent Nation, and The Nation of Yahweh to everyday current events. Jamal considered himself to be a political prisoner much like Geronimo Pratt, Stokely Carmichael or a Shaka Sankolfa. He claimed that he was innocent and was being held as a pawn in the system, especially in the County of …show more content…
If you play with Him and you don’t include him, you don’t have a plan. The only way to assure yourself of lifelong freedom is to let Him be the center of your plan. I will see you again Walker, and I promise you it won’t be behind these walls.” He went on to preach. “Now remember Walker, every smile is not a pleasant one and not every handshake is attached to respect.” I spread the knowledge I was receiving from Jamal out in my mind and examined it as I would a map. The next morning a correction officer woke Jamal up and told him that he would be processing out of the county jail that morning and would be on the next chain to The Texas Department of Corrections (T.D.C) prison. That was the last time I saw or heard from Jamal. It wasn’t until now that I realized the depth of his