From collection New Albany Public Library News Collection
Filmmakers finding Indiana prisons to be camera-friendly
Doug Garrison spent 26 years as an FBI agent, putting criminals behind bars; now he's helping people like Oprah Winfrey redeem them. As chief communications officer for the Indiana Department of Corrections, Garrison is one of the reasons why Indiana is gaining a reputation as being "camera-friendly" to TV producers and filmmakers eager to document the perils of prison life. Indiana inmates have been featured on the Discovery Channel and MSNBC, the Speed Channel wants in, and a crew from OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, spent last month inside the maximum security prison for women in Rockville. Photographs accompany the article