Posts Tagged ‘inmates’
Private Prisons, Public Pain
Despite a long record of abuses, GEO is still running Texas prisons.Peter Gorman
Reeves County straddles I-20 in West Texas, between Odessa and El Paso. Pecos is the county seat, anchored in cowboy mythology. Tiny homes, many of them 100 years old and made of stone, line several dozen downtown streets; beyo...
Outback Symphony
KRISTIAN LINThe earnest and completely uninventive Australian drama Broken Hill is about Tommy McAlpine (Luke Arnold, an Australian TV star who strongly resembles Adrian Grenier), a teenager who dreams of becoming a composer as he grows up...
Our Other Selves
Gayle ReavesShooting through thick glass into the narrow box of a prison interview cubicle, John Holbrook had few options as a photographer.
Paying the Price for Free Speech
Karen Lewis’ worst crime, in the eyes of federal jailers, may have been talking to the Weekly.Betty Brink
It was 2:30 a.m. when a guard woke her up and told her to pack her belongings. By 5 a.m., Karen Lucchesi Lewis was in a Bureau of Prisons bus, shackled and chained, on the way from Carswell Federal Medical Center to a holding f...
A New Kind of Wage Slave
Corporations are getting rich using federal prisoners as captive labor pools.Betty Brink
Unless she’s dying or recovering from surgery, a patient at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell must work.
Bullies With Badges
Abuses by law enforcement are giving Johnson County a black eye.Peter Gorman
When Patsy Keifer got busted for DWI while sitting at the side of a country road in her broken-down Chevy pickup, it didn’t surprise her.