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The Series: The Price of Prison
Kelsey Murrow (Photo: Screenshot from video by Thorne Anderson) Kelsey Murrow (Photo: Screenshot from video by Thorne Anderson)
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Learning To Become A Businessman Behind Bars

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Watch Kelsey Murrow as he completes nine months of business training with the Prison Entrepreneurship Program and prepares for his release from incarceration at Sanders Estes Unit State Prison in Venus, Texas. We met Murrow on graduation day, when he pitched his business plan to visiting business executives.

See more in the One Crisis Away: The Price of Prison series.

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Reporters: Courtney Collins, Stephanie Kuo and Christopher Connelly

Managing Editor: Eric Aasen

Photographer: Allison V. Smith

Digital Coordinator: Christy Robinson

Designer-Developer: Justin Bowers

Video: Thorne Anderson

Director of Community Engagement: Denita Malvern

Director of Education: Kit Lively

Senior Producer: Stephen Becker

Vice President, News: Rick Holter

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About the Series

It’s almost impossible to calculate the exact “cost” of spending time behind bars. The meter starts running at the moment of arrest, and doesn’t stop after someone’s released. From lawyer fees to jail calls to probation, incarceration can be financially devastating.

The KERA series One Crisis Away: The Price Of Prison chronicles the costs for the inmates behind bars, for the families left behind and for society as a whole.

Explore the Price of Prison series and the larger One Crisis Away project.

KERA’s The Price Of Prison is funded in part by Communities Foundation of Texas, Texas Women’s Foundation and the Chrest Foundation.