‘An Awful Mistake’ Might Soon Be Fixed—Finally
Benjamine Spencer at the H. H. Coffield Unit (Nathan Bajar)Every morning, long before dawn, Benjamine Spencer slips out of his bunk, dresses quietly in his white uniform, and heads to his job. He tiptoes so as not to wake up the 110 men in his dorm room—men who have been convicted of murder, rape, drug trafficking, and other violent crimes—in one of the most dangerous maximum-security prisons in Texas.