About Tony

Tony Ford has spent over three decades on Texas Death Row - 34 years of isolation, confined to a 60 square feet cell for 22 to 24 hours a day. Texas death row is one of the harshest places in the United States. There is no physical contact, no mental - health care, and no human connection. Day after day, the world shrinks to a concrete box where a person’s thoughts can become their only company - and their only threat. This system does not rehabilitate, it wears people down, psychologically and physically. It isolates them until the world forgets they exist. And yet, through all those years behind concrete and steel, Tonys voice, art and humanity have never stop shining. He continues to push back against everything that was meant to silence him.