Capitol Chronicle

As Gov. Bush moves to D.C. in a wave of acclamation, the Legislature prepares to meet over redistricting and new legislation.

"...Prisons: For a decade, the state has tried to build..."

Dec. 22, 2000 News Column by Michael King

One

"...San Francisco neighborhood. Nick (Picoy) is fresh out of prison, where he's served a short stretch for helping his..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Hottest Race in Texas

The David Fisher-Todd Staples Senate Contest in East Texas Will Decide the Fate of the State Senate -- and the U.S. House

"...likely as not to backfire against the attacker."Health Care, Prisons, and Water Setting aside the campaign-driven animus now evident..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Michael King

American Caste

"...was written, for all practical purposes, by the Texas prison system...."

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Rob Owen

Deep River Of Song: Big Brazos Texas Prison Recordings, 1933-34 (Rounder)

Texas Platters

"...Deep River Of Song: Big BrazosTexas Prison Recordings, 1933-34 (Rounder) Five tracks into this fascinating but..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

The Hurricane

"...spent time in a juvenile hall and later in prison for burglary, was clearly on the outs with the..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...demanding the release of a Pakistani cleric in Indian prison, Maulana Masood Akhtar, who is also the general secretary..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Column

High-Tech Heist

A former Power Computing company employee stole memory modules and drew a 25-year prison sentence.

"...are used to hearing TV prosecutors haggle over five-year prison increments like they were buying a leather satchel in..."

Dec. 24, 1999 News Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Preying on Atheists

The Oldest Motive: Revenge

"...O'Hairs realized that if Waters were sent back to prison (a habitual criminal, Waters had numerous prior convictions, including..."

June 4, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Hadrian's Walls: A Novel

"...the citizenry found that they had to build a prison (for sin) and a cemetery (for the wages of..."

May 14, 1999 Books Feature

Mandatory Talk

Cheap Labor

"...the Austin American-Statesman's business section on Dec. 10, titled "Prison labor is making a comeback."..."

Jan. 1, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Scanlines

Knute Rockne, All-American

"...about it, The Longest Yard passes the testosterone test: prison, football, and both a car chase and a fistfight..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Screens Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...painted on the ground are going to be in prison for six months," she said...."

March 20, 1998 News Feature

All Wrapped Up

Holiday Film Previews

"...context for this unconventional wartime love story between two prisoners. Mick Jagger plays a bisexual Berlin clubowner in this..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Face/Off

Exhilarating performances from Cage and Travolta, as well as Woo's tremendously enjoyable action set-pieces make this a very entertaining action film.

"...allowing him to get close to brother Pollux in prison and trick him into giving up the necessary information...."

July 4, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

It Ain't Mayberry

Sheriff Candidates Focus on Prisons and Patrol

"...down the hall set loose a hulking, mentally ill prisoner who was serving time for multiple rapes. "This guy..."

Oct. 18, 1996 News Feature by Audrey Duff

Switchblade Sisters

This nifty little movie is full of all the lurid teases, off-the-cuff production values, and trenchant topicality that make exploitation movies the fascinating cultural time capsules they are.

"...work includes the bizarre cult favorite Spider Baby, two women-in-prison gems The Big Doll House and The Big Bird..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Wild Bunch

"...Deke Thornton (Ryan), hoping to win his parole from prison by finding his former partners. One of the excised..."

March 31, 1995 Movie Review by Louis Black

Natural Born Killers

Stone grabs our collective viscera and never lets go for the next two hours.

"...itself pathological, the dim and ridiculous brute of a prison warden (Jones, in a performance so outlandish that he..."

Aug. 26, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

American Me

Olmos delivers a stark and unflinching study of the self-destructive perpetuation of violence, crime, and gang warfare in the Hispanic-American community.

"...proliferation of the mid-1970s. American Me’s thesis is that prisons, far from being giant warehouses for society's cast-offs, are,..."

March 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All Hustle and Grit: Inside Family Business Austinite Cannabis Co.

Owner Estella Castro on the importance of medical cannabis and minority representation in dispensaries

"...raised nearby across from the Scoot Inn, went to prison on a specious marijuana charge as a young man..."

April 18, 2025 Arts Feature by Kevin Curtin

TB Anywhere Means TB Everywhere

"...B. Connally Unit ["Tuberculosis Has Broken Out in Texas Prison System," News, July 26]. That is shocking news and..."

July 26, 2024 Postmarks

Movies, Comedy, Books, and More Recommended Arts Events

Find an art that fits your tastes

"...– Richard Whittaker Books Through Bars: Stories From the Prison Books Movement..."

March 29, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Three Years After the January 6 Insurrection, What’s Changed in Central Texas?

Locals have pleaded guilty, but conspiracy theories still reign

"...Austinite Geoffrey Shough, was sentenced to six months in prison last March...."

Jan. 6, 2024 News Post by Maggie Quinlan

Cyrus Gray Hasn’t Been Convicted of a Crime, but He Spent Years in Jail

Now he is an advocate for the rights of the accused

"...not dropped the capital murder charges against him. A prison sentence of life without parole still hangs over his..."

March 3, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Austin Film Festival Selection The Other Fellow Looks at Life Being Named James Bond

The names are Bond. James Bond.

"...a James Bond in Indiana, a Black American in prison. Now the film explores James Bond as a racial..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Screens Feature by Rod Machen

Death Watch: Conveyor Belt to Lethal Injection Keeps Rolling

Ramirez will be prayed over as he dies

"...after the last minute) to consider Ramirez's request that prison officials allow his pastor to touch him and pray..."

Sept. 30, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Austin Aquarium Under Scrutiny Again After PETA Investigation

One fish, two fish, red fish, dead fish

"...Boise aquarium later that year and sentenced to federal prison. He then went back to prison for violating his..."

Sept. 23, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Hardcore-Nazi Austinite Wanted by the Law

After making numerous threats, local white supremacist made a mistake in threatening law enforcement

"...and has spent much of his adult life in prison – on weapons charges, and then for violating his..."

May 27, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Legislators Urge Abbott to Spare the Life of Woman on Death Row

Justice for Melissa Lucio?

"...Melissa Lucio last week at the women's death row prison in Gatesville, where she awaits her scheduled execution on..."

April 15, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

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