![]() ![]() “When I first got there, everyone kept joking that if I stepped out of line the guards would send me to ‘M-Seg.’ One day I asked a buddy, who had been locked up for 15 years already when I got there, why people kept talking about ‘M-Seg’ and not any of the other seg wings.” In addition to the cell houses each building also contains several solitary wings, labeled from ‘A-Seg’ to ‘Z-Seg’. In the middle of each cell house is the Rec Room where the cells all open up to and this is where the inmates spend most of their free time. Inside each building there are 10 cell houses, each cell house contains 12 cells that can hold anywhere from 1 to 4 inmates each. Now the way the prison is set up is that there is an A-Building and a B-Building. One of his vocational skills he picked up was plumbing, and soon became the in house plumber for ‘A’ building. He said he decided to make the best of it, learn as many skills as he could, and stay as busy as possible. He told me that as the months pass you get used to your routine, you start to need the structure, even crave it. It is a maximum security prison designed to mostly hold suspected gang members and violent criminals. My dad was sent to the Telford unit a few months after his 21st birthday, sentenced to 20 years for armed robbery. For the rest of you, I won’t sparse details and I’ll lay them out exactly as he laid them out to me. I will just let you know now that some of these stories are graphic and if you have a weak stomach I’d advise you not to read further. I was both pleased and horrified as for the next two hours he divulged some truly chilling and grotesque tales. Recently I took an interest in the darker events that have happened to various family members and sat down to ask him if he had any chilling stories or experiences he could share about his time he spent incarcerated, anything that he hadn’t shared with me before. My father spent 14 years locked behind the thick steel doors of the Barry Telford State Penitentiary located right outside Texarkana, Texas. ![]()
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