Laura Burke

  • The Burden of Proof

    It was an unusual beginning to a love story.  James Legate was five years into a life sentence for murder. Yolanda Garcia, a 59-year-old [...] Full Story

  • Freedom’s Just a Word

    Photos by Lance Rosenfield/Prime Former inmates board buses to Dallas and Houston after being released from the Walls Unit in Huntsville. Every morning at [...] Full Story

  • UT’s Dirty Investments

    While many universities have stopped investing in companies that do business in Sudan, the University of Texas still invests millions of dollars in the [...] Full Story

  • Fate of Juvenile Offenders in the Spotlight

    The wrangling over what the state of Texas should do with its juvenile offenders continued Thursday in a packed room at the Capitol. The [...] Full Story

  • A Threat To Society

    Hear Laura Burke’s interview with Texas Public Radio KSTX 98.1. Off of a dead-end street in the lush woodlands of East Texas, Chris Cain [...] Full Story

  • The Burden of Proof

    It was an unusual beginning to a love story.  James Legate was five years into a life sentence for murder. Yolanda Garcia, a 59-year-old [...] Full Story

  • Freedom’s Just a Word

    Photos by Lance Rosenfield/Prime Former inmates board buses to Dallas and Houston after being released from the Walls Unit in Huntsville. Every morning at [...] Full Story

  • UT’s Dirty Investments

    While many universities have stopped investing in companies that do business in Sudan, the University of Texas still invests millions of dollars in the [...] Full Story

  • A Threat To Society

    Hear Laura Burke’s interview with Texas Public Radio KSTX 98.1. Off of a dead-end street in the lush woodlands of East Texas, Chris Cain [...] Full Story

  • The Families’ Advocate

    Texas incarcerates more of its residents than any other state. Most of them are people of color. In Houston, Tarsha Jackson, an organizer with [...] Full Story