September Previews

"...underneath a construction site three years ago. While in prison, the site developed into an L.A. police precinct, and..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature

October Previews

"...Four women in prison form a rock band, break out, and become rock..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature

Burying the Past

Judge rules that George W. Bush doesn't have to testify in whistleblower lawsuit.

"...the Board of Criminal Justice, which oversees the state's prison system. During his stint on that board, from 1979-1985,..."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Wilde Life

"...was extremely bitter. De Profundis, the letter written in prison to "Bosie," Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde's own personal siren..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Buried Alive

The "Freedom Flotilla"

"...Herrera was sentenced to 15 years in an Illinois prison. His time there was difficult, but, he says, more..."

Dec. 18, 1998 News Feature by Lisa Tozzi

Murder in the Suburbs

Good Luck Penny

"...penalty with Minton's assistance. Cross is no longer in prison. The sisters estimate that Minton's legal fees in the..."

Dec. 11, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Postmarks

"...a path that would lead me to a political prison cell. My crime was a resolute refusal to participate,..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Column

Scanlines

"...Romero and young snotnose Frankie Avalon into going to prison to rub out Mickey Rooney (so far, so good)...."

Aug. 14, 1998 Screens Feature

Movies From the Mount

Sundance Film Festival

"...a petty drug charge and changes his life in prison, directed by Marc Levin, an award-winning documentary filmmaker making..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Post Marks

Park and Ride

"...than any other Texas governor, how she built more prison beds than any previous governor, and how the new..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Column

The Music of Our Sins -- Part II Letters at 3am

"...contemporaries.) The rest of the country wasn't obsessed with prison songs, but the South was, because the South was..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Untrained Wonders

UT's Exhibition of Self-Taught Artists Features Miracles

"...accident; Frank Jones and Henry Ray Clark's incarceration in prison; Eddie Arning's release to a nursing home after 30..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Postmarks

DeWitty Center Helpful

"...at present completing her fifth year of a 99-year prison sentence at Gatesville for the arson murder of her..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Column

Poetry as Activism

Raul Salinas' Passion for Literature and Life

"...the campaigns to free Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal, prisoners who many observers believe to be in jail for..."

March 21, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West

Family Circle

Charlie and Will Sexton

"...was busted on a pot charge and sent to prison. In his absence, a small-time Cajun dope dealer from..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...No Prison for Abortion, Yet: State Republicans showed a shred of..."

April 25, 2025 News Feature

SXSW Film Review: The Spies Among Us

A historian investigates the Stasi’s legacy of brutality

"...often forces (or compels) him to sleep in the prison-turned-museum that once held him for nine months after he..."

March 8, 2025 SXSW Post by Joe Gross

The Count of Monte-Cristo

From the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas

"...he didn't commit, Edmond Dantes spends fourteen years in prison. After a daring escape, he becomes the wealthy Count..."

Jan. 3, 2025 Movie Review

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...on the way. Donald Trump is talking to private prison companies in an effort to dramatically expand immigrant detention..."

Dec. 20, 2024 News Feature

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Officer Christopher Taylor was sentenced to two years in prison this week for killing Mauris DeSilva in 2019 while..."

Dec. 6, 2024 News Feature

Heavier Trip

Deadpan comedy sequel to 2018 Norwegian sleeper hit

"...the world’s most brutal metal band, must escape Norwegian prison and save a reindeer slaughterhouse from foreclosure before battling..."

Nov. 29, 2024 Movie Review

Doctors Are Confused and Women Are Dying

Texas must clean up its abortion laws, local rep says

"...treat pregnant women experiencing life-threatening emergencies for fear of imprisonment or losing their license. Now, reporting by ProPublica shows..."

Nov. 8, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Memoir of a Snail

Australian stop-motion drama will draw you out of your shell

"...It carries a safe haven that is also a prison. So while Grace Pudel, the most passive protagonist of..."

Nov. 1, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Joker: Folie à Deux

Joaquin Phoenix is back as the Joker in this musical sequel

"...about societal dysfunction and power. How can the vicious prison guard be the good guy? Well, maybe by not..."

Oct. 4, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Rob Peace

Chiwetel Ejiofor co-stars in and directs this real-life story about a brilliant young man trying to escape Newark’s cycle of violence

"...of violence and drugs that landed his father in prison...."

Aug. 16, 2024 Movie Review

Sing Sing

Colman Domingo gives a radiant performance in this drama about incarcerated men finding community and purpose in acting

"...Arts (RTA) theatre program inside the titular maximum security prison, Sing Sing begins with Colman Domingo, as an incarcerated..."

Aug. 9, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...currently faces a lawsuit over heat-related deaths in its prisons that lack air conditioning. The TDCJ continues to deny..."

Aug. 2, 2024 News Feature

Opinion: With Elections Looming, Texas Should Expand the Right to Vote

The laws that deny voting rights to people due to a felony conviction have no place in modern America

"...for it. In an 1897 speech at the National Prison Congress, George T. Winston, then-president of the University of..."

July 26, 2024 Column by Robert Lilly

Texas’ Secret Supplier of Execution Drugs Is Accused of Enabling Drug Dealing

Death penalty critics call it a “pill mill”

"...For at least the last six years, the Texas prison system’s method for acquiring pentobarbital – the substance it..."

July 19, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

State Prepares to Kill Murderer, Spiritual Leader on Death Row

Ramiro Gonzales has “so much potential”

"...to get their death sentences commuted to life in prison. Ramiro Gonzales presented a powerful one earlier this month...."

June 21, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

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