‘Exodus,’ Oscar Contender About Two Women Released From Long Prison Terms, Asks “What Comes After Freedom?”

The Oscar-contending short documentary Exodus, directed by Nimco Sheikhaden, follows two women “endlessly plagued by their ...

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’s prison system, revealing that filmmakers’ research documented 1,377 ...
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 ...
Sacramento Bee

California lawmakers want reform for women in prison facing ‘double punishment’

Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, D-Oakland, speaks about Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7, authored by Assemblyman Corey Jackson’s, D-Moreno Valley, in the chamber Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, at the state ...
Christianity Today

Incarcerated Women Say Male Inmates Abuse Gender Identity Policies

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the Central ...