I was 16 years old, a family member and a family friend got into a fight. They tagt me as ajoke. Nobody questioned that. Nobody questin where did i get my frane from? So they don't think about the mi frame of wy you was hurt, or why you hurt somebody. E, prison is really is a business as a corporation. And iet an, i fill, i to we stop being lived at as a commodity and sor idin. It's always going t be that way. Nobody's oveto care. I iis oti, the correction and a rehabilitation ag ready. Is, i is for i ust wa.
In 2010, folk-singer and songwriter Zoe Boekbinder (http://zoeboekbinder.com/) visited New Folsom Prison for the first time. What they thought would be one interesting day turned into a decade-long collaborative project. Boekbinder visited the prison often over the next five years; performing and teaching music workshops quickly turned into the beginnings of collaborations with writers and musicians who were incarcerated within New Folsom's walls. Boekbinder collaborated on the first of these songs with Alex Batriz, and following that, was approached by many more writers about collaborations. This was the seed for the Prison Music Project and the culminating album, Long Time Gone, produced by Ani DiFranco. Out now on Righteous Babe Records, the album features work by nine incarcerated (and formerly incarcerated) writers.
The profits of Long Time Gone (https://amzn.to/31Y5phb) sales will benefit communities impacted by mass incarceration and the funds will be administered by the Southern Center for Human Rights. The contributing writers will decide, collectively, what projects will be funded. The writers own their work and will profit from royalties.
You can find Prison Music Project at:
Prison Music Project Website : https://www.righteousbabe.com/pages/prisonmusicproject
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