Tom's new address

Thomas Treu
1443944
W6 Trusty Camp
975 Ofstie Rd
Beeville Tx 78102

A letter from Tom: January 12

Dear Friends,
I am posting Tom's letter to me even though it may not be entirely relevant to everyone else.

Dear Traci & Rick,

Thanks for your email. I received it last night. And yes it is now the second one I've received. Now not only my dad emails but you and Bobby R have sent them. I received one the other day that was sent at 3:05 p.m. and got it that night. It's a much quicker way of communicating even if I have to respond I can get a letter in the mail the next morning - as they pick up our mail each morning at 7:00 a.m. and it should go out that same day.

Bobby indicated that I am currently under review even though I haven't seen parole which is okay by me. He also received everyone's support letters (Eric included) and plans to send it off sometime very soon. Maybe I already mentioned it but my friend from Alamo received his parole and will be leaving in the next few weeks. I told him I would ask - do you know anyone who hires men to work offshore? He's done that before. If so maybe you can send me a name and an address so he can contact them.

He got parole without any parole packet, support letters or job--go figure. I think Arnold said a while back that when it's your time to go you will go. I'm guessing Arnold's busy as Bobby said he would be putting this year's packet together. At least I have the two of them looking out for that packet. And thanks for offering to call the parole member (Mr. Garcia). I know Mr. Aliseda in the San Antonio region scheduled calls from family and friends. Hopefully it is the same procedure in the Huntsville Region and he will accept your call.

Thanks again for the new shipment of books and for contacting the newspaper. Keep me posted on your progress with parole. I'm getting excited about the prospect of leaving.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Tom

Tom has e-mail

Dear Friends,

For those of you who would like to communicate with Tom via e-mail, good news. You now have that option!

I tried it out last night. Just go to http://jpay.com and set up an account. You can then compose and send emails from that site for $.44 per page, and a page holds a lot of text. This is so much more convenient than snail mail, and Tom gets it more quickly, too.

You can even send attachments. This service rocks. Enjoy.

Traci

A Letter - December 13

Dear Traci and Rick,

How are you doing? I hope enjoying the holiday season. Thank you so much for the books you sent me last week. What a nice Christmas present. I'm really liking those two authors. It was such a nice surprise.

Did I tell you that I was moved to Trusty Quarters located just outside the unit? There are 60 of us in a giant warehouse type building--we each have our own cubicle with a writing table. All of us are Trustys. As you can probably tell I like it so much better. No bars!

This is my last week of class before we will break until January 5. I guess I will work mornings as well as afternoons. We'll be off the 24th and 25th and possibly 1/2 day on the 23rd. I'll be ready to get back to my routine though, but thankfully I'll have books to read. We're supposed to have "lock down" (rumor had it for today but it didn't happen). There was a guy who escaped and was later caught and they (Senator Whitmire) asked for a statewide lockdown. That usually means a week of nothing to do but read--so I'll be ready.

I made Mexican rice over the weekend with sausage fajitas with a guy who is here from Alamo. I got a bag of the instant rice, used a couple squirts of ketchup, added a chopped jalapeno and some salsa then added boiling water and voila--it looked good and tasted better. That combined with the sliced sausage fajitas in bbq sauce made us a nice meal.

Merry Christmas--write when you have time!

Tom

A Letter From Tom

Dear Friends,

I just this minute received a letter from Tom dated July 4. I'll share it with you here:

Well after two long weeks I've arrived--I'm at the Huntsville Unit AKA The Walls--the oldest institution in the state located in downtown Huntsville, population 65,000. I guess they call it The Walls because of the 40' wall that surrounds it. It is also the place where they execute the death row inmates and bury them (I'll get to that later). The place looks like an old college campus complete with red brick buildings and a courtyard with trees and flowering plants. The courtyard is actually one big recreation yard. I finally feel like I am where I am. There are no dorms, just rows with 2-man cells like in the movies. I feel a lot of history here. We are about an hour from Houston.

I was also reclassified--I received my S2 - Trusty status. This means I am allowed to work outside of the unit, and you know what...my boss at Lopez was right--what did they give me for a job? Groundskeeper. We go all over Huntsville mowing grass! I am a gardener. I thought I was going to die on Friday--it was 103 degrees. I am going to try to find something else but they tell me they give the Trustys those jobs where they can go outside. Groundskeeping also maintains the cemetery. I hear that there are two executions this month. Wow! A gravedigger, too. I'll keep you posted.

I'm guessing that they will put me back in school but school is on summer break for three weeks.

My new address is:

Huntsville Unit
815 12th St.
Huntsville TX 77348

I haven't received any mail here yet, so I don't know what's going on. Hopefully I'll catch up this week.

If you have the time maybe you can put most of this letter in the Blog. (Editor's note: done!)

Tom's Address

Dear Friends,
I posted a mailing address for Tom recently, but when I tried to send him books via Amazon today the address came back invalid. I did a search on the TDC website, and they have this address for him:

815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas 77342(936) 437-1975

That's where I sent the book order, so I hope it's accurate for a few days.

If anyone has different information, please let me know.

Tom's New Address - For 45 Days Or So

Tom Treu
1443944
21FM 247
Byrd Unit
Huntsville Tx 77320