Former WBRC anchor works as producer on HBO documentary about Alabama’s prison system

Former WBRC anchor Beth Shelburne worked as a producer on a new HBO documentary examining the serious problems within Alabama ...
Houston Press

Houston-Based Prison Radio Show Documentary Debuts June 3 at Fifth Ward’s DeLUXE Theater

The Prison Show documentary will be screened June 2 at the DeLUXE Theater in Houston. Credit: Screenshot “You remember the pain. You remember solitary confinement. You remember picking cotton in ...
Reason

Pregnant Women in Prison Aren't Getting Care, and No One Is Keeping Track

Early in her second trimester, Linda Acoff was taken into custody for failing to complete court-ordered mental health treatment. After three weeks in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Columbus, Ohio, she ...
Houston Public Media

'Everything is changing every minute': New prison rules for trans women on hold

A Bureau of Prisons policy that, earlier this week, called on transgender women in federal prisons to hand over any female-identifying clothing and other commissary items, like women's razors and hair ...