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Local filmmakers hope to shackle prison system misconceptions
By johnsoncitypress.com- Elizabeth Saulsbury
Published: 06/23/2014

A local documentary will soon air on PBS.

“Outcasts: Surviving the Culture of Rejection,” written and directed by Stephen Newton and produced by Jane Hillhouse, will debut on East Tennessee PBS on July 13 at 7 p.m. The film is about the history and evolution of overincarceration and discusses the difficulties of re-entry into society after imprisonment.

“It’s about the high cost of recidivism and its effect on families and communities,” Hillhouse said.

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