Contact me at:
Timothy Payne #01471086
TDCJ
P.O. Box 660400
Dallas, TX 75266-0400

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🎉 Birthday: March 25th, 1986

📯 Timothy is allowed to receive:
– No limit photos per envelope
– No limit to papers per envelope
– Greeting cards/Postcards
Timothy is receiving digital photocopies of all incoming mail.
Timothy can be contacted through SecurusTech.

Timothy says:
My name is Timothy Payne. I was incarcerated at the age of 18. doing the math, that means I have been in prison for this last 20 years. In 20 more years I will be eligible for parole. In saying this, I do not want to give the impression that I am one of those people who down play the responsibility of the incarcerated for the actions and events that led to incarceration. Quite the opposite, I have come to a point where I use my personal, negative impact upon the world as a stimulus for positive, giving actions. In no way do good actions erase the past, but they do help heal the many wounds caused by men in prison.

Having lived for the past 20 years in the American prison system, I think my lived experiences have the ability to inform a largely ignorant public about the actual state of corrections in the American prison system. Surely I am only one voice in millions, and my opinions have been uniquely shaped by my unique experiences. Nonetheless, a voice that is not used is useless in positively impacting the state of things.

Through my writing, I desire to show my experiences to those who are curious. I am convinced that the bulk of inmates in the American prison system enter this environment better people than when they leave. This is not a claim that these men enter the system as good people, only that this environment has a corrupting impact. I hope to share some of the details with you all in the future.

On another level, my writing represents one mind expressing his experiences to the world. As much as I look at others with an inspective mind, I also know that my mind has been impacted in ways I do not fully understand. Yet, in expressing myself, I hope to show the world my humanness. Being in prison has not stripped my humanity from me. As a human, I have the desire to interact with the world and to be understood by at least some people.

Thank you for your time in reading this.

• VOICES
• POISONED BY SHAME
• SILENT SIBLINGS
• FAMILY TIES