YES, IN MY BACKYARD
Produced by Tracy Huling / Galloping Girls Productions, Inc.
in association with WSKG Public Broadcasting, EEN and ITVS.

Project Description:
For many years prison officials faced the "NIMBY" problem: when communities heard about plans for a new prison the outcry was "Not In My Backyard!" Times have changed. Financially-strapped communities are now begging for prisons to be built in their backyards. With plundering agribusiness, military-base closings and major industry relocation, incarceration is seen as the salvation of rural communities. Through the eyes of one farming-community-turned-prison-town, this hour documentary explores the increasing and multi-layered dependence of rural America on prison industries and subtly probes the profound implications of this dependence for both the keepers and the kept, and for our society's understanding of and response to crime.

Status of Production:
Delivered to Central Educational Network (CEN) Aired on PBS.

Budget and Funding Sources:
Funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting through the Station-Independent Partnership Production (SIPP) Fund, an initiative of the Independent Television Service and Public TV's regional networks. (ITVSA)
Estimated total budget $85,000 (not including marketing and distribution).

Balance provided by in-kind donations.
Produced by Galloping Girls Productions, Inc. and WSKG Public Broadcasting.
Produced and Directed by Tracy Huling

Production Team

Music by Thomas Bellino
Edited by Lesley Wahl
Photographed by Thomas Teich
Sound Recording by Rick Reineke

Executive in Charge for WSKG Public Broadcasting: June M. Smith
Galloping Girls Productions, Inc.

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