SET: Huntsville Prison Release

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As part of an ongoing project, I drove to Huntsville penitentiary to photograph a prison release. I’d been trying for to get in the prison for three weeks, but red tape and nervousness surrounding the execution unit (also at Huntsville) had gracefully scrapped that ship.

Like the families, I arrived before sun up and waited. No one knew when the prisoners would be released, so we all spent the afternoon listening to a contractor’s Iraqi war stories, trying to keep the children happy, making awkward airport-lobby-introductions, and asking each other if it would happen soon. Everyone but I was worried that there had somehow been a mistake, and that their brother-husband-son wouldn’t be released that day.

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A bag full of letters searched up and down and up again, but there was no one waiting for him.
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Be good, daddy is watching you from the window
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