Inmate Reveals How K2 Changed Texas Prisons Forever & The New Drug Economy Inside
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Tim Greishimer’s return to prison in 2014 revealed a drastically changed Texas prison system—marked by widespread corruption, deteriorating standards, and systemic exploitation. Unlike his first incarceration, where inmates adhered to strict discipline and cleanliness, the second era saw chaos, addiction to K2, and a rise in inmate hustles, especially in laundry, drug distribution, and radio repair, dominated by Mexican and African American inmates. Guards, especially Nigerian staff, were described as robotic, untrustworthy, and ineffective, enabling contraband to flow via toilets and bar screens, with inmates like Tim’s “homeboys” controlling smuggling operations. Tim documented how inmates were forced to bring contraband back to prison, effectively being extorted by guards who profited from the system. He also revealed a major case involving inmate Blake, exposed through a Muslim friend who uncovered the extortion scheme. A $250 payment was made to a guard to drop the case, illustrating the deep corruption. Despite this, Tim stayed committed to integrity, using his tattooing skills to build a legitimate career post-prison. His story highlights not only the brutal realities of prison life but also the systemic failures—like child support debt and racial division—that drive criminal behavior and corruption. Tim’s journey from drug dealer to devout Muslim reflects a personal transformation, emphasizing that even in a broken system, redemption and accountability are possible.
Say you got a visit, you'll have your girl go into the bathroom, pull the balloons out, drop them in the toilet and flush them, anybody who was trying to get something flushed and get it brought back in, they had to go through my homeboys, the law didn't shake them down, they made sure he got back to the pod with the fucking dope. He's got the laws on payroll because they know what he's doing. The laundry man and the K-2 man is probably the best hustle down here. This is the final episode of a five-part series we filmed with Tim Greishimer. From Blood Gang Banger to Meth Kingpin to devout Muslim, Timis spent his life trying to figure it out. In this episode, he talks about his final prison bit, exposing the new age of prison drugs muggling, the corruption of the guards, and how he managed to put the life of crime behind him. It's been an absolute pleasure hearing this man's story. Remember, you can get the fully uncensored and ad-free interviews over at patreon.com/theconexshow. Ladies and gentlemen, get ready for the grand finale. It's Timmy Greishimer right here on The Connect with Johnny Mitchell. So you're 44 now, 43 now, with the off-paper when you're 44. And you went into prison when you were 17. So you've been, and the whole time you were selling drugs, you were a parole probation. So you haven't really been free for almost 30 years. Yeah. Fuck yeah. Goddamn. You went back in 2014, you never called a drug case, but you went back in 2014, what was the major thing that struck you as different than your first time you went down in 2000? What had changed about the Texas prison system? The inmates, like the respect level, and shit like that, the way the inmates carry themselves, just the whole respect level, the cleanliness of the prison on the inmates part as well. 'Cause like the first time I went to prison, like you couldn't be dirty. You couldn't throw trash on the floor, you had to pick up after yourself. If you made a spread, clean up after yourself, it was extremely clean. The kitchen was clean, like it was respectful stuff like that, like there's like now, there's like not a lot of respect down there. The inmates are fucking lazy, they're dirty. Uh, it's just, it's more wild, like more, more wild, I should say, the respect factor is not there anymore. That's like the first thing I realize. Do you think there's more addicts? More people are addicted? Yeah, yeah. Because everybody down there is on that K2 shit and they want the K2 that's going to put somebody in the hospital, like they find out that, oh man, they got that gas over there, homeboy locked up, they want to get on that shit and it's, it's weird, I don't get it. I don't get it at all, but yeah, definitely for sure, more addicts are down there. Is there money in K2 if you can get it in? Oh, yeah, the fucking K2 man makes more money than the tattoo man and then what's different down there now. So when I was in prison the first time, like if you washed somebody's clothes, like not if you worked in the laundry and you could get somebody's clothes and take a man and they could stay in fresh wipes. Like there was guys that got bags, they had bags from the laundry and they could take clothes in and wash them in the washer personally and fucking press them and you'd be wearing a night, they call it tight whites all the time. That was different. But somebody who washed people's clothes was usually somebody who was riding, who was paying protection. But now that's a hustle down there now, like that's a job, like the laundry man be washing clothes, the laundry man and the K2 man is probably the best hustle down there. Why is the laundry man such a good hustle? Man, it's mainly the place and Mexicans that be doing that shit, but because so many people wash their own shit like they hand out brand new sheets, other fuckers will keep those brand new sheets or they'll buy them the laundry person has them so they hand wash their own sheets. So if they got, if they're busy, they work a lot or this and that, somebody will wash them for them. They get new clothes, they'll have that dude wash them for them, wash them and press them, they'll press them, they'll get starch out of the kitchen and fucking put it in a bowl and liquid it and starch their clothes and put them on a clothes line and put fans on them and fucking fan them up and then when they're close, start to fall apart, they'll have a makeshift needle or they might get a real sewing needle from the laundry and they'll sew them up. They sew up shoes and places are invented, bro, they're fucking crazy. Them motherfuckers are stupid fucking invented, bro, like they'll fucking shave the metal off the bunks and then the bun come like this and then the lip will go down and then they'll shave like a little piece off each lip and then like you can buy ID badges off commissary and they have like a like a cheap metal clip that clips on here. So they'll get wire like a positive and negative and they'll, so they'll hook it up there and they'll run it either into the plug or they'll run it to the back of the radio. Usually they run into the back of the radio where the coax cable is and they'll fucking be making fajitas and shit off that motherfucking bed and the laws coming there and smell it. And remember how I told you they had that food bank at Tore's unit, the kitchen commissary clerk, him and the kitchen captain were super cool. So she would let him get some shit before she stole it all. And they did give us some of it like the cheesecake and stuff like that, but he would come back with fucking free world, fucking fajita meat, fucking free world like the Mexican cheese and shit like that and then he bring a bunch of tortillas in and he'd get the butter and fucking bro, he'd be whipping up fucking fajitas tacos. That bitch would be selling like a talk or real, I ain't fucking lying. And then he would feed they would feed the cops too. So the price of Mexicans, they they wash the clothes, they fix the shoes. They build the radios speakers. They build the tattoo guns. They they yeah, them in the K2 guy make them they made more money than me. I had like five walkers and the motherfuckers have more money than me. So it's kind of like in the free world, Mexicans run run it. The price of Mexicans, yeah, they, they, they, they fucking, they don't fuck around. So you got back and you're short time and did you have a hustle in there? Like you were, you were doing dirt. You were selling cigarettes and not this the second time I didn't fuck with cigarettes didn't even sell in their dog like ain't nobody smoking cigarettes in person anymore. Not that I saw like my homeboy had got a free world pack of new ports and nobody was even trying to buy him. That's how I used to always be a off and on again, smoker my whole life. And he had got those ports in and I used to smoke menthols. He's like, bro, you want to come and smoke a square with me and I was like, yeah. And we wouldn't hit that square and man, the room started spinning and I was in my bunk and my fucking stomach was nodded up and I was like, never again. But no, so like my first hustle, I mean, everything I did obviously was illegal in jail, but I didn't sell like drugs or cigarettes or K2. I never, I didn't touch any of that shit. Because I just wanted to come home like I knew some of the artists in there and got cool with some of the artists in there and I asked them would they teach me how to draw. So they started teaching me how to draw and I kept learning how to draw and how to draw. And there was two dudes in there who used to tattoo on the streets that had caught free world charges, one of them owned a shop and he was like tapping on strippers and doeboys and he was like living the street life, but doing legal shit and he had a fluke ass case and he had got caught up. So I'm like, man, if I want to stop hustling, even though in my mind I was coming home to hustle, like I was like, I'm at least going to come home and hustle for like a year and fucking run it up real quick and then I'll go legit. That was really my whole, my plan, the whole fucking time. And that changed the day I walked out of prison. Like as soon as I walked out of prison, I was like, I'm not going back, I'm done. But my whole time, even in my parole program, I still like was going to come home and sell drugs. You know what I'm saying? So that was my whole plan, but I was like, I'm going to tattoo, I'm going to go to the strip club. I'm this and this is the plan I had in my head. So I started learning how to draw boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And then I got my first tattoo machine and I had like an off brand motherfucker that nobody really fucked with, but he let me tat him up and I just started fucking tat him up and taking care of him. Like I paid him to let me tattoo him. How do you get a tattoo rig in prison? Oh, they get him from like the relays, like that'll be like in like the lights in the wall. There's like a thing in there called a relay and they get it. And I never learned how to build one. I always paid somebody to build one for me. But like some of them like they got like the copper wires that spin around the red wires or whatever. And I know like when they build one from scratch, I think they do like a hundred wraps one way and then 120 the other way. And then after that, you just fucking you like don't get like a piece like we would always get a piece of the cans out of the kitchen, the metal can and we get the top of the can that they can good. And we have it cut down to a piece like that and we'd have it sticking off there and then you like blow the ink out of the fucking pin tube. And you get like a wire brush needle from the fucking maintenance shop. They call them V's like they have these like wire brushes and now they'll get the brand new one and pull them out. And then we'll make the sand the tin.
down with real fine sandpaper to make the needle. And then you just get like a pin and cut it in half, use like a fucking, you got a paper clip. We solder the paper clip onto that, that metal piece from the can. So it sticks off. And then you put a little hole through the ink cap and then it sticks on there and then we'll take like a piece of an eraser and put that on there. And then once you run the wire like you run it into the wall or on the radio or whatever, but on the transfer units, they don't have radios unless they've changed that. So we had run it into the wall or we had run it into the exit sign. And then I'm all fucking to like that and fucking it looks like a coil machine or the ones that I used to like using because it was really easy to get rid of if you had to get rid of it was like if you knew somebody who worked in the schoolhouse, the, uh, uh, electric pencil sharpeners, you can get, they call it a spinner, a spinner motor out of there, get that. And then I would get a dude to build me like a wrist thing. So the spinner would be in here and then I'd have the wires ran from there to the, the, the gun, the machine. No, so I got the, the, the spinner on the actual machine, the tattoo machine and running the wires to the D batteries, like the square D batteries with the two different weird ins. So I'd have that under here and it's so light and fucking tattoo. So if somebody's like, man, the laws are coming. I just unhook it and go like that and drop it in my shorts and just fucking walk off. But I always tattooed when it was good. So I didn't have to do that, but it was mobile. So I could just go wherever I wanted to. I didn't have to do all this crazy hookup shit. So the spinner, the spinner tattoo machines were the best to me. And how, how powerful are they compared to like an actual tattoo gun? Like can they give a full, a full on tattoo or kind of janky? No, I'm fucking sleeved out. And that's all from the joint. There's everything's from the joint. All my shit's from prison. Everything's all this is all from prison. Everything is from prison. All of this is all from the joint. Single needle every single bit of it. Wow. I ain't got, I mean, I ain't saying my tattoos are fire. But my fucker, my shit look good for some fucking, some penitentiary shit. I got this motherfucker capped off on my 19th birthday on medium custody. I fell out of place in a, a white dude cell. They called him snowman. And he came down into my cell in my homeboy spice. We fucking smoked a joint and fucking smoked a square and fucking he filled all this in. And then we did this bottom half all of my 19th birthday and fucking yeah. So shit. I don't got no janky prison tattoos. My shit looks straight. So how much did you, how much were you able to charge for tattoos? And what were some of the, what were some of the biggest jobs you did? All I did was sleeve work in prison. Sleeves and chests like you couldn't just come and get a single tattoo for me. You had to spend $50 or better. And I didn't tattoo for commissary. I tattooed for free real money. So you had to wire the money to my mom. So I was make, I wasn't wanting commissary. Of course, I had commissary like, I mean, I made money, but I was worried about building an account to come home to. So everything had to be sent to my mom's house. I mean, to my, you know, to my mom's account or whatever. So you had to spend 50 year better. I charged 50 a sleeve. So if you pay me 50 bucks, I'll sleeve you out. If somehow you got moved and we couldn't, you know, get anything else than I'd have my mom wire the rest to your family that, you know, you lost, but you had to pay me first because my word is good and I'm going to, I'm going to make sure you get your money back. So you got to pay me first before we do anything. And then depending on the situation, like, if I tattooed, if it wasn't good and I went in your house, like, say, I didn't have like a spinner. I didn't have the spinner. I had a relay. And I came, because the relay's hit the hardest, like the ones that had like the bed, like a black, like a black box on it, a cover. And then you had, they called, they called them copper tops. But then they had the ones with the blue, the blue box, those hit harder than the black ones. They called them blue demons. So they were loud. I'm talking about like that bitch was fucking loud. But if I fell in yourself, I would straight up tell you, if the cops come, the case is yours. I'm leaving everything here. I'm walking out because it's a major case. So is giving a tattoo a major case? Yeah. Yeah. It's a major case. Like, well, they refer it to the DA. No, no, no, like, it's like, so you have like minor cases and major cases. So like a major case is that you'll get like a loss of, uh, like, say you're a, uh, you know how I told you like a S1 S2. I don't even think they make S1, they give people S1s anymore, but S2 is a trustee. Then you got S3 S4 line one. That's all minimum custody. Then you got like line two, line three, I think line four. That's all medium close custody. So if you catch a major case, you can be a S3. They can drop you to a S4 or a line one, take 60 days, good time puts you 30, 30 commissary restriction, record restriction, you know, cell restriction. If they want to do that, so they just strip you of shit. If you do that. So and a major case, if you get a major case with mate, what's called major punishment as an automatic year set off. So if you're about to see parole that year, you can cancel Christmas because you ain't seeing parole that year. Did you ever get popped? No, because I always tattooed when it was good. I usually always had the green light to tattoo. Sometimes I didn't, but I had lookouts on my team. So if we tattooed when it wasn't good, like, sometimes you just, like, they rotate the good laws out. So like, say for like a week, this card's going to be on your, on your building. And they're not a good card, but this dude's already sent me my, sent me his money. I'm not trying to make him wait. So I'd pay a guy to look out for me. So say we might be tattooing over here in this cell when the cops come in. If the mofuckers like, you know, they would always be like hot water, hot water. I don't know why they say stupid ass shit. But if you notice a lot of state criminals are not that smart. So say you're tattooing over here. They'd be like, hot water and the guards, they're not, there might be stupid, but they're not that stupid. So they look at your eyes. They follow your eyes next. You know, they're going straight to that cell or that area. So I'd pay a look out and I'd be like, a fool, a don't yell no fucking hot water. Just be like, look out, bring me Tim. Give me some coffee. Look that way, motherfucker. Don't look where I'm at. Look the whole other way because they're going to follow you and they're going to go that way. So I never got caught. I mean, I got close to getting caught. But I mean, I was always pretty, you know, slick with how I did my shit. And you said the guards by the time you went back in it in 2014, the quality of guard in the Texas correctional system had really fallen off. Yeah. I mean, the mobile, the majority of them are fucking Nigerian. This is a gang of Nigerian guards. And some of them are cool. Most of them are not. They're fucking robots on the real like, they don't have like a gray area. So they just like, and they don't really have any social skills. So it's like, they're just like robots like they just, it's weird. It's just like they, they, how they act and they don't have any social skills. They stink. The majority of them don't wear the odor in a shit like that. I ain't trying to be an ass. So I'm just keeping it real. But uh, and they're fucking rude as fuck. Like some of them are cool. But the majority of them are, are rude. And is that because they can't find, it's obviously because they can't find Americans to they can't find them Americans. Americans are one to do the job. You know, so they lowered the standards when I before I left the first time, like the mail guard, you just have to be like six foot or six one, two thirty. And they got to pass a fitness test and shit like that. Then we'll do that. They hire old people. I remember before I left the last time this lady was doing mail call, right? Cause they'll come and sit out at the table and they'll do mail call. The dude's last name was Washington. And she couldn't even say it. So everybody's fucking with their like, they were like, what's the name of the first president ever in our country? And then the she didn't know the guy's like George Washington Washington. And she goes, oh, yeah, yeah, the guy is on the one dollar bill. Yeah. He's like, so what's that say? And she, she didn't even know how to fucking read. Like how to fuck you or a prison guard. You don't even know how to fucking read. And these Nigerians, they're the same way. They're, they're, they're, some of them are smart. Like some of them are, but some of them are just like plum fucking dumb. And they're just there for bodies to like babysit inmates. That's, that's really what it is. I guess I could be good for inmates that want to hustle and get over on shit. Yeah, but it's not good because, but I mean, like they're lazy. Like they never pop the doors. Like they never, they never give you any leeway to fucking do anything. Like they'll come like high. So they'll come doing in and out. They'll do an in and then you go in yourself and then like say you're on the third section. They come and do in all the way around. And then they're supposed to go back to one section and then do an out. So it gives you enough time to get a shot of coffee or whatever you're trying to do. They never fucking come back. So now you're stuck and then there's like no movement. Like they'll control the movement because they're so lazy. So like say you got to land and you're trying to get out or they're supposed to let you out to go to work and you can't get out. So they basically, they, they, they fuck it up to where they're like trying to hustle, but you can't, you're trying to move this money. They won't let the SSI.
over here to do his fucking job like they'll just be sitting in the picket and you'll be like, "Hey man, let me in the pond." And they'll just be fucking looking at you. They won't even hit the button. Like they say literally like they fucked the shit up. Like they cause more chaos than harm. Whereas in American law, they're probably just lazy. And it's like, yeah, you know, whatever do what you got to do, I don't give a fuck. Like I'm not getting paid that much to fucking, you know. And the yeah, that's really what it is. They cause more problems than they, they, they, you know, are good. I should say that about him. And at this point, you're transitioning. You go in, you're still a five nine bounty hunter blood, but you're, you're transition to becoming a wood. Yeah, yeah. I was, I became a Muslim. And then I became a wood later on. Yeah. Yeah, it's a fascinating kind of trajectory. But what word did you still have homies from, from back in the day? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause like there's people who never leave or there's people that have came back and stuff like that. So like that was why, like my time, because like Tories, like it, it's different than Polonski. Like it's a lot of fighting over there. Like you got like, so you got like two sides, the unit, you and instead of like a side and B side, it's called, you know, like J, you got like J1, J2, J3, J4, and then J5. So like J1 and J2 is like medium, custody. And then J2 is like all the confirmed gang members that are just trapped in the pod all day long. And all they can do is go to school, like how G pod was on seven building. I told you about, but like on J3, just like on J1, like say, you're white and you come in and then they'll let you put your stuff up. And then they're going to come up to yourself and they're going to be like, "Hey fool, you a wood or they'll be like, are you a homeboy?" That's how they talk now. Like that's how the blast talk. What's up, homeboy? What's up, homeboy? So the wood pile is now kind of like a version of the Tango blast. I would say like with the lingo and how they do the heart checks and shit. So they'll come up and up and be like, "You a homeboy?" And they'll be like, "No, are they might ask here you a wood?" Either way. And then if you're like, "No, bro, I'm solo." Then they're going to be like, "Bro, you got to get up out of here. They won't let you live over there." Because the thing is is that they're not going to let a weak white person stay there. So if you start getting hogged, you're making all them look bad and they're going to have to set it off behind you. And like I told you before, like Tories is like 90 plus percent, probably 90 percent. Maybe it might be like 85 percent Mexican, but it feels like 90. And the white dudes that are there, a lot of them are not stiff. And it's not because, you know, they're hosed, but a lot of white dudes don't aren't brought up like that. They're not brought up fighting all the time. And shit like that, you got the country boys. But then like I also told you before, whites are hard on whites. They didn't like other system where whites come in and then like, "Hey, bro, and give you some commissary and hey, this is the rules." And they got your back. The whites are immediately like, you're fucking enemy. So it's like, that's why I had became a race realist because I know like race matters. Like, you know, you like even me grown up with a lot of blacks and I had white friends and Mexican friends, but predominantly black. When I went to jail, like even though there weren't whites around me, when I went to that first tank, I know if there were whites, I know my inner mind would have been like, "Go hang out with who look like you." That's just natural law. You can't dispute that, right? Even though I relate to these people, the natural order of things is different. So like, when you come to prison and then nobody's trying to be your homie, only a small, my new group of people are built to fucking go against everybody even your own looking at you like you're a fucking piece of meat. And that's why a lot of white boys get handled in Texas prisons because whites don't accept them because they only want the toughest of the toughest. And that's one of the reasons why they don't have a lot of numbers, but also at the same time to add to that, Texas prisons is fucked up because and even the white units, even the white administration that run these units will do this. If there's like five or six stiff woods on a pod, the laws will break that shit up because they already know once, and I'm not saying that because I became a wood and I'm like trying to blow whites up or nothing like that. I'm speaking that because any real motherfucker that's been in prison in Texas, and there's been a couple of black dudes I've seen on podcasts that have said this, you get five to eight white boys on a pod, there's going to be a problem. A, they're going to start bringing dope in because they usually control the dope trade anywhere they go because most of them are on the maintenance crew. And they will make things happen for dope to come in. You know what I'm saying, like cheap example, like say you got a visitation, right? So the majority of people on the maintenance crew are white and a couple of essays. There's usually never a black on there, maybe one black, but it's usually white boys. So like when you like say you flush contraband down the toilet, they have um, there's, there's gears or something. There's grinders under the system and the pipes. The white boys and the maintenance are so fucking dope. They figure out how to shut the grinders off, but they go to different buildings. I really don't know how it works, but I just know that's, it's like that they're, it's not like a main one. They go to different, I think they are at different buildings or something. They'll get the grinder shut off. So say you got a visit, you'll have your girl going to the bathroom, pull the balloons out, drop them in the toilet and flush them. They'll make it through the grinder. Then they'll have the dude at the bar screen. There's, there's this thing called the bar screen where all the fucking like the shit water goes through, but there's like a big ass like hole in it and there's a cage down in there. So all the trash and everything the person from the bar screen will pull up that cage and get all the trash out of the cage. So it doesn't like clog up the pipes or go like I guess out into like the public area. So that cleans the water, you know what I'm saying? Like it makes sure that there's no like chip bags or whatever, but the contraband that comes through there, that motherfucker can get it, clean it off, keister it and fucking bring it back into the fucking pot. And it's all white boys who set that shit up and anybody who says anything different is fucking lying. And this is from somebody who wasn't a wood, they're fucking lying. So like J like J2, if you're not a wood, you can't live there. They're going to make sure like my homeboy chief I talked about, they're going, you're going to leave. You're going to get a puff that fucking pot. And the same thing is for Mexicans too. If you're a solo Mexican, they're going to tongo blast going to run that solo heart check on you. And they're going to fucking beat your fucking ass. And if you even if you fade it, they're just going to keep coming. So you might as well just get down or fucking get the fuck off the fucking the pod. So, uh, yeah, Torres unit was, it was the politics over there. We're definitely a lot different. Every bench was spoken for every shower was spoken for and they fucking enforced that shit to a T. And there was fighting over there like 24/7, bro. Torres thumps all day long. All fucking day long thumps. That's all they do over there. Like and that ain't no fucking lie. Yeah, you were saying the, the way that they flush the, the dope bags down the toilet, the, the visiting bathrooms, they, what they extorting a, a show of all, they had the show mode digging through the shit water. Yeah, yeah. My boy, man. He was cool. He was cool, dude. He had a fucked up case. So I was waiting to come home. And so he was working to bar screen and the law, the law that worked out there on his shift was cool. With my homies. So they were the woods. Yeah, the woods. Yeah, my homeboy. So they were having anybody that wanted anybody who was trying to get something flushed and get it brought back in, they had to go through my homeboys to get the shit brought back in. So unless they were trying to smuggle something from visitation on their own, or they had a law bringing it in. If otherwise, it had to get flush and go to the bar screen because my homeboys were the ones getting the grinders turned off. And the laws were letting them do this. They were the ones getting the grinders turned off. So it could make it through and get to the, this bar screen and then the homeboy had to bring it in. So this fool had a fucked up case. And when he got to the building, like I spoke on the last podcast, there was a bunch of racial tension going on at that time between us and the Mexicans over a K2 debt. When he got to the pod, because there was only a couple of homies on the pod, they were still supposed to run his paperwork. But he was like, no, I'm not, I'm not a homeboy or whatever. And because of the racial tension, I guess they were just more so focused on that, that they didn't run his paperwork. And he was only on the building like one or two days on J3. I think he was on J3. So he comes out to our pod. And then my homeboy, a little bit shoots word of the building like, hey, what's up? Is this fool good? And they lie and say, yeah, but he wasn't good. So he lives on the pod for a minute, bro. But he like used to wear these like, I'm not lying to you. Like if you pull up a fucking mug shot at Jeffrey Dahmer, those 70s big bifocals, he, I used to joke with him about the shit. Because the dude looked like a fucking Greek god, bro, like he wore clothes that were too big for him. And he was always like real slouchy and he poor posture and he read all the time. Then he had go to work and then he had come back and he didn't really talk a lot. But
he exercised. And when he popped top, this motherfucker, he was like, he was Clark Kent, bro, going from a fucking three piece suit to fucking buff bag. Well, this cracker was ripped dog and I used to fuck with him. I'm like, damn, I was I had your body full. But my homeboy always felt there was something weird about him. So like they took the jack shots out the penitentiary, but you can still order like they took the news out, but you can they call them jack shots. You could still order like pictures from a company and it's porn stars and models and G strings and shit like that. And there's this one. I guess she's a porn star. I think her name is like Tia to Pango or some shit, but every time she like they make the card, she's like in pig tail. She got braces and she'd be like little teddy bears on the bed. So like makes her look like a little 15 year old girl. She's super skinny with no titties. So every time we seen dudes with jack shots or no matter what color they were, we would always think that fool's either got a sex case, no matter what color they were or they just got a weird fetish. Well, that dude Blake, he kept fucking like collecting shots at his girl. And my homeboy little bit was always going to his house getting magazines from him or books and your TDC number is either a on the magazine in the subscription or in the book, they do like a TDC stamp and your numbers on it. So usually when people give books away or magazines away, they'll cut their their shit off there and so anybody could have it. So my homeboy is getting books and shit from him, but because he went and he was like, kind of jack shots. You got he saw all those Tia jack shots. So he goes down and jumps on the phone and he has his old lady loop up his case and he sees that he's in there for like some type of child porn shit. But he digs even further. He did like took I think like a day or two to do this because he didn't even tell nobody he was doing it. So there's you can pull up people's core records. I don't know if it's like a fives a thing or you have to pay or something, but you can find out people's information. But the thing about Texas prisons is if you got like a like a sex case on a child, like if you have kids under 18, they can't visit you. But when I was getting visits, he's in there with his wife and kids. So when a little bit brings to he's like, he's a fucking show mo and he wants to smash him. I'm waiting on a parole answer. We just spend $8,000 on a parole lawyer. Like that ain't happening dog. Like we smashing them. There's something funny about this case because my mom was back from Poland. She was overseas with my stepdad, but she had came back from a couple of weeks. So they granted her special visits because one thing about Texas penitentiary, a lot of those people that are like high ranked their veterans. So they respect that military shit. So when my mom called and was like, Hey, I need I'm coming back. I only got this amount of time because I didn't have her on my visitation list because she wasn't in the country. And she wasn't even in the state either anyway. So I wasn't getting no visits down there. So they allowed her to come and see me without that whole process. So when I was in visit, he was in there with his wife and kids. And I got up and I walked over to the table. And you know, the guards, they fucked with me. So they didn't say nothing which they should have. And I squatted down and I asked his wife, I'm like, what the fuck is he in here for? And she gave me some bullshit story or whatever. And I'm like, all right. And I walked off. But it's like, I knew it was bullshit, but there had to be some kind of truth to it because they're letting his kids come in there. And that was what was stumping me. But at the same time, I'm, I'm waiting to see parole. I'm like, bro, I'm not. Look, I'm a wood and everything. But I'm politics and different dog like beating this fool's ass ain't doing nothing for nobody. Like we got the homies had a lot going on. They were making, they were making money. They were controlling everything. Basically that was coming in. Like we had it good. Besides the little beef with the Mexicans, we had it good. Like homies were having money. Everything was like kind of going our way, type shit. So beating him up was just going to cause fucking problems. I come back from visitation and I tell the homies what's up. And they're like, man, we want to go ahead and we smash him and get smashed him. And I'm like, dog, just leave him alone. We're out here on the dorms, bro. Like just we're not on the building. Leave it alone. Like they politic harder on the building. The dorms is Cadillac. They called it the White House. So I'm like, just leave them on the fuck alone. So behind my back, they fucking go and tell this fool, Hey, bro, you're going to start bringing these drops in. And if you don't bring these drops in, they were going to beat the fuck out of you. And if you try to catch out, we're going to get, they scare the fucking shit out of them that you can't walk nowhere in Texas. We'll get you. So they got this motherfucker bringing drops in for free. I don't even notice is going, is going on for a while behind my back. So they, they got him a job at the screen to make him start bringing drops. It catches all the debris in the dope with the shit water that's coming down. And he would have to go fish out the drug bags. Yeah. And then shove him up his own ass. Yeah. And bring him back. And I don't even know. I don't know. This is all going on the whole time. They're keeping it from me. And do the, the woods have the guards in pocket? Yeah. Yeah. They got them in pocket to fucking let all this happen. And they're like, Hey, we're going to send this guy down here. I mean, because that takes power to be able to tell the guards, Hey, we want this guy working this job. They had them on the job. What shift they wanted them on working with the wall that they wanted them working with. The law didn't shake them down. Nothing. The law escorted his ass all the way back to the fucking pod to the front door of the pod. Because you can be walking down the slab. You could have just left a job and got shook down. You could have left like when you leave the trades. They shake everybody down. You can walk. The third could be a loss sitting down there. Watch you get shook and down. And you walk in just because they want to be a hoe or maybe they feel like that law didn't do good enough job. They're going to be like, Hey, look at our mental come here. Get out of them. So you can get hit at any time you're never safe. But if that laws escort him straight to the door and then a law says, Hey, let me shake a come here, come here, Mitchell, get out and he going to be like, No, I just shook him down. Get you could fuck out of here, fool. Like you ain't shaking him down. I shouldn't even happen. So he they made sure he got back to the pod with the fucking dope. And that was their way of extorting him was making him bring all that shit back that shitty ass shit and fucking him not getting the lick out of it and bring and bringing it back. And then how I even found out they were doing it because I was, you know, speaking at the time, they jack these crypt fools for their for their shit. And my home, my home boy, it was a Muslim from Somalia. He was in on it because he's a big hustler. So when they go confront Blake, he tells them immediately, I didn't do this. They did this. They cause he was supposed to bring the drop back and give it to them. And then they're supposed to be breaking off my homeboys a percentage for allowing for shutting the grinders off and him bring the mule bringing it back so they got a break off a percentage. I don't even know none of this shit's even going on. I mean, I know that they're, they got things going on, but I didn't know this. Well, instead of them fools getting their pack, they made Blake tell them that the pack got, got damaged and fucked up. And he couldn't bring it back when the whole time they got the drop. And then they turn around and they start fucking sinning shit here and there. And motherfuckers is like, this is our shit. What was it? It was K2. How do you K2? What is K2 stuffed in a balloon? Is that like K2 sprayed on pieces of magazine? Oh, it's like that. It looks like fucking popery. Right. Like that's what it looks like is fucking popery. Wow. And people roll it up and smoke it. Yeah. And they roll it up and smoke it. So, so there must be a ton of money involved. If they're able to pay off a guard like that. Yeah. And pay off probably a few more people because it was like, I think the little bag you can get from the smoke shop or the corner store wherever they were getting it at. I think the bag dude, somebody I knew that was selling it. He was a blank dude. I'm actually going to send you a shit. He fucking him and a Mexican partner of mine. They just got caught up in a kidnapping case in the tone. So they're locked back up in the county. So the black dude, he was a big time huster. He was stupid fucking cool though. I asked him, I was like, bro, how much money are you making off that shit? I think he said like a bag was 15 or 30 bucks. And he was making 1,500 off each bag. Wow. How many bags fit in the balloon? Well, shit. I mean, there ain't them that K two shit. I mean, I don't know how much comes in that bag, but depends on how big the balloon is. Honestly. It depends on how big the how big the balloon is, you know, how big they how big the chick stuffs it up in there and then flush. I mean, it can't be like super crazy. I mean, obviously you can push it down or something. It's going to go down that toilet. That's like heroin money. Do they're making crazy money off that fucking tune? And like I told you, they want the shit. That's the strongest. So that dude right there, because me and him used to chop it up all the time. Because he was on the trash crew. So he goes around everywhere on the unit and picks up trash. So he's getting commissary in the trash, put it at the bottom of the trash, putting trash. He's trafficking. He's moving the whole time.
time. But he's got the laws on payroll because they know what he's doing. They know he's, he's, he's making moves. And so he would get some type of seasoning because he told me this, he would get some type of seasoning out of the chow hall that looked like the tune. And he would mix it in with it if it was too strong because he didn't like people like, fucking season up on his shit. But he would make it just strong enough to where some people would spaz out on that tune. So they had a full route. They have a full-ass drug route through this septic system. Yeah. That the white boys are charging a fee for and then bringing in their own shit. Still robbing people. And this guy, this, this guy Blake with bad paperwork, he must have been kind of a bitch because, you know, what are they going to do stab you on a dorm like everybody's going home? Like even a guy like me, I wouldn't have taken that seriously. I would have been like, no, like you could just jump me and run me off. That's, that's dude. I think he got scared because he was just worried about being shipped off. And I guess they could have shipped them off to a different prison. Yeah. They would have shipped them off. And then they could have touched him with a knife or something over there. They could have done something to it. If, if he would have left there, he would have had to go somewhere else and he's going to have to start all over again. He brings in some shit. I don't know how often he was doing it because I didn't find out, but how I found out even the whole operation was my Muslim homeboy came up to me. He was like, hey bro, come out, let me. And what's funny. So we're in the dorm. So it's the cubicle. So my homies that are doing it, they're all in the cubicle together, making a spread. So they didn't already talk to my homeboy. It's the Muslim in the crib, dude. So what I walked by him, I see how they're looking at me. They got this guilty look on their face. So we walked down and we go and sit in his cubicle. I'm like, what's up, dark? And he's all like, he's like, say, bro, he's like, what's up with your home boys? And I was like the fuck you talking about? He's like, you don't know what's going on. And I'm like, no, and he's like smiling. And he's all like, bro, for real, I'm like, no, what's up? So he's the one that even tells me the whole fucking play. I'm like, what the fuck? And then I turn around and look because Blake stays like on this side right over here. And he's sitting in his cell with these book-ass eyes and these big ass glasses because these cripples don't hold this motherfucker. You're going to fucking pay us. We don't care what them white boys got you got going on. We're going to fucking smash the fuck out of you and fucking. Now he's got my homeboys telling him that they're about to fucking up because he told them the fucking whole fucking play. So he's just sitting there looking straight like he's like zoned out on some fucking drugs. And I'm like, what the fuck? So he tells me everything. So I'm like, bro, let me, let me go holler at him. So I get up and I turn around and look and they're down this way. And I just see them looking at me. And it's like dimming the dorm. So like how these lights on. They got like a night light. They sell on commissary. They got the night light on. I just see my three homeboys looking at me. I come walking down there and I'm like, man, I'm walking and I just squat down on floor. I'm like, what the fuck is going on fool? And I'm like, what? And I'm like, bro, don't what? Like what is up dog? Like y'all fucking what is up this shit with Blake? Now these cripples like they were talking about they want their fucking money. What the fuck the motherfucking tobed motherfuckers. We took their shit. I was like, I'm going on parole homie this ain't out. This shit's going to get men. It's on Blake. Fuck him. They can answer to him and start. So then I was like, that ain't happening. Like these fools are getting their money. We're going to have to work out something. And then I went downstairs and I holler at the cripple and then me and him talked and then fucking my boy, Southwest, the Somalian Muslim. He came downstairs and we started talking. And I was like, look, I don't give a fuck if I got to have my fucking people. Why are you some money? My motherfucking self at least you're re up. Like, don't please don't I'm trying to where I'm waiting to go home. And then Southwest was already had parole too. So I'm like, we don't even fucking need this. If I have to, I'll clean it up and we'll make this shit right. But then I went back upstairs and then I'm like, bro, so they were like just they wanted to work something out where they got the money back and it all got worked out and everything got cleaned up and they got their money back and stuff like that. And I did, but I ain't going to lie. I was going to wire that fool's people some bread to clean up that mess because I know we just spend $8,000 on a parole lawyer branch on the fucking go home. Like, ain't nobody got time for you to be jacking these motherfuckers. And y'all are already making good ass money. There was no reason for it. Well, plus the re-ups went 30 bucks. Yeah. That's like, dude. Well, I told the motherfucker, I'd given $300. I was like, bro, I'll send you $300. Right? Right now I'll go get on the phone and talking code on the phone because you got to talk on code because they're listening to it. Like then they're listening to it heavy. Like they listen to key words because I caught a major case for that because I got put on fucking, uh, uh, you remember I told you I owed back child support. I had so much money on my books that child support seized my account. And I couldn't fucking make store because I had to release all my money to them. So I had my money wire some money to another dude's books to go to store for me, which was Southwest. How much bread did you have in your books? Shit, like $8,000. That is that a lot? Is that enough to I found a few have four thousand or more that child support will come after it. And they fucking sure as hell did they fucking seized all that money. I had to release it to them. So from then on, my, the commissary, the do that ran commissary because I worked in commissary at one point in time. He was the one that told me he said, don't keep no more than $500 on your account. The keep child support off your ass. And so they're really listening on the phones in those low level. Yeah. They're listening. They, they, they listened to key words. They, it's key words. And they, I think it's a AI system or something because when we got popped. So as soon as Southwest came back with my fucking ecom, they get it's called an ecom where your people can purchase stuff online and they can just go pick it up. As soon as he come back, she orders two points of ice cream. So me and his mother fucker are both eating the pint laughing. I mean, I, I remember a mint chocolate ship. We're laughing, talking it up. And I'm all like, I'm like, man, we want to send the fucking extortion officer comes in. Christ, I'm 97. I forget Southwest last name said his name, said his bunk. It was the fucking main building. I can't line building. Come down a line building. You gotta, you gotta talk to extortion. I was like, fuck. My mom had said something to me that was a key word because I was cool with them motherfuckers. So they called, um, there's it. What's the, what's the, what's this thing? Cause you know, Spanish, what's the Spanish word for like a beast or Kukui? They called him Kukui. That was his nickname. So when we're walking, it's him and another extortion officer that run it and she's a bitch, but he's cool as fuck. So I'm like, Kukui, what the fuck is up? What happened? He goes, man, it was something your mom said that the machine picked up. And that's how we investigated and we saw the money. And I was like, fuck. So he tries to get us out of the case and he don't let us out of the case. And then there was a dude that worked in line building for the captain. They called him crypto. He was born with like skinny legs. He had to wear braces, and he walked like this and he was like, so they called him crypto. And he worked for the captain. So Kukui tried to get the case thrown out for the captain, but there was a new warden on the unit. And he was like, if I let them make it, then I got to let other people make it because they're going to talk. And then Kukui was telling them, they're not going to talk. And he was really trying to get the case pulled. So they weren't trying to hear it. I'm waiting on that parole answer right at this time. I'd already seen parole. I'm waiting on the answer. And my stepdad flew over here from Poland to go to my parole hearing in San Antonio. And I'm like, fuck, I got to get this case. So I'm going to crypto. And I'm like, Hey, my fucker. Get the captain to give you this case. Bro, I'll pay you whatever to fuck you want. He's like, all right, Tim, I got you, baby, because me and him are super tight. So he went down to line building. Next thing I know I get called the line building. So the captain called me in the office and cryptos behind him. So he's like, just the deal I'm going to do. He's like Southwest case is going to he's not going to get a case. His case is going to be thrown out. But for some reason that captain, he didn't like me. I don't know why he goes, but your case, you're getting a major case. But I'm going to get it dropped the minor punishment. So you don't get an automatic year set off. And he's like, and you're going to pay crypto $250. Before this case runs or it's going to be a major case with major punishment, he's like, so have your mom wire him $250. And I was like, well, having if I had the phone situation, he's like, we already got it. He's like, get on the fucking phone and call your people. He let me use his fucking phone to call my people and have her fucking wires $250 to that fool to squat and to give me a minor punishment for that case. And then I made parole on that case. So that's how much it cost me to fucking make sure I got out was $250. Wow. Wow. So somehow the court system identified that you had a bunch of money on your books somehow. I don't know how, but they did. Because that's what this whole, the whole reason you went to prison. Yeah. That's the whole reason. Right. Was that you were behind on child support. Yeah. And they were sitting. Go ahead. Now, what do you say to people?
in the comments of these past episodes that say how could Tim have gone to prison over a bullshit child support if he was making, you know, all these millions selling meth and moving tons of weed to Ohio. That was the only criticism I saw of you or what do you say to that? Well, first and foremost, what I say to that is a fuck the system. And that's that the comments. Well, I'm not saying fuck the comments. They can say what they want. I'm talking about fuck the system. Like, you're making me pay child support for a case that I for a kid that I'm not even getting to see. But you have to realize that whole child support thing I got put on. I had the back pay for being locked up for the dope case. So they're charging me for that seven months. I'm in the county with a 10% interest off every missed payment. So for seven months. So when I get out of the county, remember, I'm back out. I'm making my payments. I'm thinking child support stopped because I'm locked up. It didn't stop. They did the same thing to me when I was in prison this time. I owe them like $50,000, bro. And when I paid a higher to lawyer and went to court to get the child support dismissed, they stay that left, left it up to my baby mama to keep that back pay. So I'm paying fucking back pay right fucking now $1,200 a month for a kid. I'm not even fucking seeing. So remember, I get out this for the people in the comments. And this is for people who think I'm lying because you can go back. You can roll the beautiful bean footage. You see, I'm in the county for seven months. I get out that sheriff comes to my house and says I got to go to court for child support. No, no, no, he didn't come to my house. I did. I get I get a thing to go to child support. And then I go in and I owe that back pay. Like I said in the video, I could have paid him that money right then and there. It was like $7,500 or some I can't remember. I could have gave him all the money, but I didn't want to give him the money because I'm like, bro, you charting while I was locked up. I'm already paying y'all. So I said, you can agree to these payments. So the payment was $750 on top of my child support payment. And then that's, but the system was like it was still old then. Like now you can just pay child support over the phone. They got a couple of places like one in Bastrop. You can go and pay there, but I just pay over the phone. You can pay online, but it wasn't like that back then. So I'm like, I'm not fucking giving these. And my baby mama is a fucking piece of shit dofying. Like I told you, or you remember when we talked last time, I told you she watched the she's somehow she saw the videos and she contacted my girl on fucking Instagram threatening her. And guess what? She did. And child support calling me again. Calling me again, talking about, oh, you know, you get it to keep up. And I'm like, bro, I'm paying you every month. Like stop calling me. Like I was in jail for you're not getting any more money out of me. So I'm dealing with this statistic, fucking female. So like you want me to pay money to give to this fucking woman. And she ain't even giving it to the kids. Oh, you got money to just give it. I'm not give fuck her. Fuck her. Even when they told me, oh, well, you should pay more because you know, you owe us $50,000. I told child support in court. I said, before I give you, before if I had $50,000, I would take it out into a field and burn it before I gave it to that motherfucker. You got me fucked up. Fuck her. I'm not giving her shit. And that's what I say to the people in the comments. Why am I going to fucking give money to some fucking piece of shit for now? You just so she can sit around and wait for me to pay her fucking bills. I'm not doing that shit. So I obviously I'm going to be me and string it out. Pay the $750 on top of the other little money. And then they fucked up the payment because the lady on the phone had me send it to Austin when you were supposed to send it to the head corporate office in San Antonio. And then that's when that sheriff came to my house because the child support nor Western Union even told me that they rejected the payment and that Western Union had the money sitting down there the whole time. So the sheriff comes to my house. He's like, I ain't going to take you to jail, but you need to clean this shit up. And that's how I was able to call child support because I had to after you make the payment, you got to take that paperwork, go to like, you had to go to like office depot or something unless you had like a fax machine at your house. You had to fax that paper to them. They signed it, faxed it back, had another paper you signed it and it was a whole fucking process just to do that payment dog like that's the whole process. So they didn't even call me and tell me that they fucking didn't that they rejected the money. Western Union never called me and told me that they fucking had the money back the whole time. So that's that whole bullshit is how everything even happened. And then on top of that they were sending me threatening letters when I was in the penitentiary talking about you Mr. Child Support Payment. If you if you miss another one, we're going to suspend your license. And I had to fucking out of typewriter right because like I told you I'd be on that I'd be trying to stir up some shit. So I was typing like letters and everything else in prison about the conditions in there. I was typing all these different organizations trying to get shit changed the second time I was in prison. And um, fucking uh, I was getting I typed the lady I was like, are you fucking stupid? Like, no, like this little like cussed her out like I don't remember. I was I typed I was like, are you fucking stupid? I was like, do you think that you're sending a letter to an apartment complex? It says Torrez unit TDC number. Where do you think I'm at? I'm in fucking prison, bro. And you're threatening to take my driver's license from me. Like, are you stupid? I'm in jail dog. This is how backwards this system is in Texas. After I went to child support when I was in the county and they told me my child support payments would stop. And they turned around and still fuck me. And now like I'm like, I think it's like $48,000 in debt to child support. I'll be paying that shit until I'm dead. And that's I become a millionaire. That's how fucked up the system is. So I don't give a fuck what those comments got to say because I'm not giving my money to some fucking piece of shit if I got it or not. I just can't do that. I'm not built. Why would I give it to you? Why would I do that? Well, the comments would say to stay out of prison. I mean, the first time, right? Obviously now it's different because you've you've fulfilled all your, you don't have a dope case hanging over your head, right? Because remember, for people that were it's you were on probation, per basically like I was fighting. Yeah, I was fighting. I was on, no, I was already on probation for the dope case when this happened. But, uh, you know, you got to realize you charged me what I'm locked up. Like, to me, that's just like, I feel like I've been fucked. I'm just that type of person, bro. Like I do clean business. Like just be to clean business. Like that, okay. Like I even told you when I went to child support court and then they left it on her. Did she want the back pay? I told them I said, okay, well, at least kill the interest. And they're like, we can't do that. And I was like, that's not right. If you want to say morally, you're charging me child support for a kid, that's mine. I can eat that. It was my choice to fuck up my choice to go to prison. I can understand that I should have been home taking care of my responsibilities. I can eat that payment. But you charge me 15% interest on every mispayment for seven and a half years. That's not fucking right, dog. And I don't give a fuck what nobody says. And it will used to be 10%. So when I was in the county for seven months, you're charging me for a payment plus 10%. If they would have told me just pay your normal payment, I would have gave them the money because that's my son. I'm home. I have a personal responsibility. That's why I'm not a rat because I have personal responsibility on up to your shit. But now you're telling me the state is in my business. Now the government is telling me pay me 10% on a payment I couldn't pay. Fuck you. Fuck you and fuck her. And people say, Oh, I didn't think I was going to prison. Like, I didn't, like, is it my fault that they fucked up a child support payment? I paid them their money. I just dragged it out. Could I have prevented everything by paying it all in one lump sum? Yeah, I could have, but who thought that they were going to fuck up the child support payment? I didn't think that. I didn't, I didn't think that. And you know, I didn't even have to go on the run for that fucking case anyways. Because they can't violate your probation or parole behind a civil case. I didn't know that. So I caused all this on myself. Anyways, I just freaking out and running. So I'm so, so, you know, that was me being stupid. I should have been not so emotional. I should have called my lawyer. And then he'd have been like, nah, bro, we'll just go to jail and we'll bond you out. You'll be good. And everything I probably would have never even went back to prison or maybe I'd have went back to prison for a bigger beef than what I went to prison for. But to people saying like, then you just, you just don't understand the outlaw mentality. Like I'm an outlaw, bro, I don't like the fucking government. Either side, fuck Trump, fuck Biden, fuck them both. They don't give a fuck about none of us. They're taking 30% of your paycheck before you even get fucking paid. And they're not doing nothing with that fucking money. Then they're taxing you on gas, groceries, and you can't even fucking make it. And you talk about why the fuck the fuck Uncle Sam? Fuck him. Fuck him. Playing in simple, bro. Fuck him. I'm an outlaw and I do outlaw shit. I'm my mother fucking be doing the right thing now. But I'm still a outlaw at heart, bro. And that's why I didn't fucking give him all my money because it killed me to know that I was going to have to give this some fucking feminist fucking case worker talking to me like I'm stupid and core. Oh, you got that nice. I just watch on. You got that nice looks like you got money to me. fuck em fuck her that shit
It's a fucking scam anyways, child support, straight up, and it's a violation of your civil rights. Motherfuckers don't even know that. And they can just fuck you and then you don't even get to see your kid and she can just keep calling the system and keep dragging you back in court. And then she don't even have to let you see your kid and like that whole system is fucking corrupt, bro. So to me, that's just the outlaw on me, bro. Like that's the outlaw on me. That is what it is. Fuck them. Fuck them all. For real, bro. I'm on some street shit, dog. I'm about humanity, about you American citizens, homeboy like us sticking together. It's us versus them. And when we get that straight, this whole fucking thing will change. It's us versus them. Period. So for the people in your comments, saying that, they must like the fucking police, want me to give my money to the motherfucking system, fuck the system. Period. And that's that period. [MUSIC]
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Tim Greishimer spent nearly 30 years in prison, first in 2000, then again in 2014, observing a dramatic decline in prison culture, cleanliness, and guard integrity.
The Texas prison system has deteriorated, with increased addiction to K2, rampant corruption among guards (especially Nigerian guards), and a breakdown in trust and discipline.
Inmates, particularly Mexican and African American communities, have built powerful underground economies: laundry, K2 distribution, and radio/sound equipment repair are major hustles.
Prisoners use improvised tattoo machines (built from relays, cans, wire, and sandpaper) to create tattoos, often for $50 per sleeve, with strict rules to avoid detection.
Guards are seen as corrupt and inefficient—many fail to perform duties like door checks, leading to contraband smuggling via toilets and bar screens.
Mexican inmates control key operations, including contraband smuggling, with white inmates often excluded or targeted due to racial tensions.
A major case involving inmate Blake, accused of drug trafficking, was exposed through a Muslim inmate who revealed systemic extortion: guards forced Blake to bring contraband back, and a $250 fee was paid to a guard to drop the case.
The system’s corruption is amplified by financial pressures, such as back child support debt, which Tim had to pay even after being incarcerated.
Tim transitioned from a drug dealer to a Muslim, symbolizing his personal journey away from crime and toward redemption.
Summary:
Tim Greishimer’s return to prison in 2014 revealed a drastically changed Texas prison system—marked by widespread corruption, deteriorating standards, and systemic exploitation. Unlike his first incarceration, where inmates adhered to strict discipline and cleanliness, the second era saw chaos, addiction to K2, and a rise in inmate hustles, especially in laundry, drug distribution, and radio repair, dominated by Mexican and African American inmates. Guards, especially Nigerian staff, were described as robotic, untrustworthy, and ineffective, enabling contraband to flow via toilets and bar screens, with inmates like Tim’s “homeboys” controlling smuggling operations.
Tim documented how inmates were forced to bring contraband back to prison, effectively being extorted by guards who profited from the system. He also revealed a major case involving inmate Blake, exposed through a Muslim friend who uncovered the extortion scheme. A $250 payment was made to a guard to drop the case, illustrating the deep corruption.
Despite this, Tim stayed committed to integrity, using his tattooing skills to build a legitimate career post-prison. His story highlights not only the brutal realities of prison life but also the systemic failures—like child support debt and racial division—that drive criminal behavior and corruption. Tim’s journey from drug dealer to devout Muslim reflects a personal transformation, emphasizing that even in a broken system, redemption and accountability are possible.
FAQs
Tim observed a significant decline in discipline and cleanliness. Inmates were dirtier, less respectful, and more lazy. He also noted a drop in inmate respect levels and a rise in drug use, especially K2, which was widely abused and highly addictive.
Inmates earned money through laundering clothes, fixing shoes, building radios and tattoo guns, and most notably, trading K2. The laundry and K2 trades were the most lucrative, with the K2 dealer making more money than the tattooist or laundry man.
Tim built a tattoo machine using copper wires from relays, metal cans, wire brushes, sandpaper, and a paper clip. He wired it to a spinner motor and concealed it by disconnecting it when guards were nearby, often hiding it in his shorts.
Yes, guards were often unqualified, poorly trained, and rude, especially Nigerian guards who lacked social skills. Inmates exploited their laziness by manipulating systems—like shutting off grinders in plumbing—to smuggle contraband, which was then retrieved by trusted inmates from the bar screen.
Racial tensions were intense, with Mexican inmates dominating in certain units, while white inmates were often viewed as weak or outsiders. White inmates were frequently excluded from pods and targeted, while Mexican inmates controlled key operations like drug smuggling and laundry.
The laundry and K2 trades were central to inmate power, with Mexican inmates dominating both. These trades allowed inmates to earn money, control access to contraband, and establish influence over drug distribution and inmate safety.
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