Redemption Songs is a limited-run newsletter that spotlights one song each week made by people in prison. Spanning almost a ...

Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now The Marshall Project ...

In Texas, a long-forgotten series of prison albums offers a rare way to hear what incarceration sounded like decades ago.

Music, more than a product or anything else, is a sacred act. That's the prevailing premise of director Contessa Gayles' award-winning Songs From The Hole, a 90-minute documentary on Netflix that ...

Whether as an inmate or his brief string of prison concerts, country legend Johnny Cash was very familiar with the U.S. penal system throughout his decades-long career. The third track Cash ever ...

Many country music fans recognize that songs about jail are a recurring theme within the genre. In fact, several country music albums focus solely on the experience of being incarcerated, moving ...

CDR copy--Recorded by Pete & Toshi Seeger in the winter of 1951 at two Texas prison farms, this album represents some of the oldest and most traditional work songs found among African American prison ...