{"id":461337,"date":"2026-10-09T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461337\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:42:08","slug":"texas-prison-offers-program-for-incarcerated-women-to-learn-braille-transcription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461337\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas prison offers program for incarcerated women to learn braille transcription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Asch, The Texas StandardOctober 09, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The job market is tough for everyone right now \u2014 and it\u2019s always been tougher for those with a criminal record. But this Texas women\u2019s prison offers inmates marketable skills in braille transcription that puts them in a good position to support themselves when they are released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For more than two decades, some women at the Patrick O\u2019Daniel Unit in Gatesville have earned the Library of Congress certification in braille transcription, and while incarcerated, their prison job is to translate textbooks for blind students. Many of them continue with that work as a career after they get out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Texas Standard\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/texasstandard.org\/about-the-team\/sarah-asch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Asch<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment airs on October 9, 2026. Audio will be available after the broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Asch, The Texas StandardOctober 09, 2026 The job market is tough for everyone right now \u2014 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-461337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}