Hasn't Jennifer Aniston read the tabloids lately? Instead of running from prison, the ex-Mrs. Brad Pitt is heading straight for it with a new project about a group of singing jailbirds in Huntsville, Texas. As described in a 2003 story (subscription required) in Texas Monthly, the women's prison Goree State Farm northwest of Houston produced a country-western group in the 1940s of mostly petty larcenists, known as the Goree All Girl String Band. The Girls weren't allowed to tour, obviously, but gained millions of fans by broadcasting from inside the station although they never made a recording. Sounds like a Coen brothers movie, but it really happened! Aniston will definitely produce and perhaps star in the ensuing musical.
Goree prison still exists, although it's gone coed since those days. The town of Huntsville also holds the Texas Prison Museum, home of legacy electric chair "Ol' Sparky" as well as shotguns found in Bonnie and Clyde's car (speaking of famous prison movies...) and inmate bobbleheads in the gift shop. Unfortunately, inmate rodeos are no longer running.
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