A family flare-up reveals much about the nation's prisons and the struggling people we rely on to run them. When it comes to American incarceration, no one escapes undamaged. From marshallproj MsReads
in 2007. But many will also tell you that they do not see Huntsville as a prison town. There is more here than just the lockups, Joseph Brown — who until recently worked as editor of the Huntsville Item — realized after he came to town in 2018. He soon stopped noticing the massive prisons on the side of the highway and started noticing the growing footprint of Sam Houston State University instead.
“It just so happens that death row is in Livingston,” Stark said. “But nobody ever hears that. You just hear, ‘Oh, I'm from Huntsville, Texas,’ and they're like: ‘How much do they execute everybody?’ And that's the kind of negativity that people are trying to get away from.”moving the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s home base to Austin, locals have objected. They don’t want to lose the jobs.
Melinda Brewer, pictured here with her husband Wayne, relocated to Huntsville, Texas from her hometown of Trinity after she started working at the Ellis Unit in 1998. “If you wanted a life,” Brewer said, “you went to Huntsville.” Whenever Melinda went out in town, she’d run into people who recognized her, even if she didn’t know them. More than once, she got pulled over and the police asked if she was related to Wayne Brewer — then let her off with a warning when she said yes.
Even though they didn’t catch Kathy with any pills, agency investigators parked outside her home in Trinity on June 26, ready to make an arrest. Before they got out of the car, Kathy’s husband Gary spotted their SUV parked near the mailbox and strolled down the driveway to ask some questions. “A lot of stealing goes on out here,” he. “That’s what I thought it was.” Realizing they’d been made, investigators drove away.
There were two other casualties of the conflict: Wayne and Melinda’s jobs. Not long after Kathy’s arrest, Wayne retired amid rumors of his imminent dismissal. Melinda, who had far fewer years with the agency, was let go — “administratively separated” in the bureaucratic lingo of prison officials. Then came the pandemic. Suddenly, prisons were a public health threat — both to the people inside them and the surrounding residents. By mid-2020, Huntsville turned, in part because of the hundreds of cases circulating inside its prisons. To stop the spreading disease, prison officials shut down visitation and stopped accepting new inmates. As arrests plummeted and courts ground to a halt, the pandemic achieved something the state’s Democrats never could: Rapid decarceration.
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