Then-private investigator John Holbrook worked with the defense team for James Lee Clark, Jr., charged with the 1993 rape and murder of 17-year old Shari Catherine \Cari\ Crews near Denton, Texas. (Clark was ultimately convicted, sentenced to death, and executed in 2007 for these crimes.) After his investigation, Holbrook suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. He attributes subsequent projects â\u20ac\u201c photographing homeless people and Death Row inmates â\u20ac\u201c to emotional and spiritual changes initiated by his role in this case. In this interview, he describes these events and processes as well as his visit to the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in order to photograph condemned male prisoners. He also reads aloud a letter from the Public information Office of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice banning him from interaction with condemned inmates. This interview took place on August 7, 2008 in Benbrook, Tarrant County, Texas.
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Holbrook, John (Narrator), Texas After Violence Project (Contributor), Long, Walter (Interviewer), Solis, Gabriel Daniel (Videographer), Crafts, Lydia (Transcriber), Renaud, Jorge Antonio (Transcriber), Hinz-Foley, Sabina (Proofreader), and O'Grady, Mary (Writer of accompanying material)