Prison Radio Show is Inmates' Link to the Outside World
On Friday nights, in prison cells across East and Southeast Texas, a window opens to the outside world. For two hours, a Houston-based radio show breaks the isolation of the incarcerated, linking inmates to families, friends and life outside lockup.
“The Prison Show,” which started in 1980 on KPFT, is part news program and part call-in radio show. Some Texas inmates have listened to their own weddings on the show, with the new spouse and a proxy exchanging vows in the studio. Others have listened to their children grow up on the radio, hearing news of soccer games and report ...
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Mary Lynn VanZandt Neill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Least they can hear.
Mark Durfee via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I liked this last quote "Without a support system, when they walk out those doors, they’re going to fall back into the problems that brought them there in the first place." Some would say that the inmates should have thought of their kids and family before doing the crime, but without a reason to turn their lives around, recidivism increases.
John Clapp via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I think not...they have TV..newspapers, computers and radio is just another way to pass coded messages to one another.....Some would think they live better inside than outside......