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Interview with Alycia Welch
Alycia Welch is the Associate Director of the Prison and Jails Innovation Lab at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin. In this interview, Alycia speaks about her work to dismantle the gender gap behind bars. Alycia works to create policy and…
Interview with Amite Dominick
At the time of this interview, Amite Dominick was the Vice-President of the Texas Prisons Air-Conditioning Advocates, and a former board member of Texas Cure. In July of 2021, Dominick became the president of TPAA, and the organization changed its…
Interview with Andrea McCutcheon
Andrea McCutcheon’s fiance has been incarcerated since May of 2018. In this interview, Andrea discusses the difficulties her fiance has endured as an immunocompromised individual during COVID-19 and the neglect he faces in Texas prisons. Through…
Interview with Bob Libal
Bob Libal is a community organizer and civil rights activist living in Austin, Texas. Currently, he is the Senior Campaign Strategist at The Sentencing Project. Bob began contributing to Austin community organizing when he began studies at UT in…
Interview with Casey Phillips
Casey Phillips is a prison reform activist and the founder and president of Texas Prisons Air Conditioning Advocates. In her interview, Phillips speaks on her experience advocating for her incarcerated and chronically ill husband. Phillips describes…
Interview with Casey Phillips, Part Two
Casey Phillips is the founder of the Texas Prisons Air Conditioning Advocacy group. In this follow-up to her 2020 interview, Casey discusses the conditions of her husband’s unit post-lockdown. Casey’s husband has late stage renal failure and…
Interview with Cluren Williams
Cluren Williams is a 4th generation Austinite, author, and activist. In this interview, Cluren discusses the deep roots of racism and classism in the US and Austin, and how he got involved with community organizing and advocacy. He is particularly…
Interview with David Johnson
David Johnson is an activist and community organizer in Austin, Texas. He currently serves as the Criminal Justice Organizer for Grassroots Leadership. In his interview, he discusses the impact of COVID-19 in prisons, specifically how prisons across…
Interview with Eric Martinez & Samantha Benavides
Sam Benavides is a recent college graduate of Texas State University, where she earned her degree in Public Administration and Political Communication. She is from Laredo, Texas, and currently works as a Campaign Fellow with Mano Amiga in San Marcos,…
Interview with Jennifer Toon
Jennifer Toon is a journalist from East Texas with 27 years of system involvement. She wrote for the state prison newspaper, The Echo, for over ten years, and as a freelance writer she has published work with The Texas Observer, The Marshall Project,…