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IN Prisons Letting Cameras Inside
By newsandtribune.com
Published: 05/13/2010

INDIANA — 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.

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