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When Texas was fertile ground for prison bands
"[T]he most moving lyrics are about loneliness, heartache and how incarceration strains families."
“The musicians skated around problems. The officers treated us better. Every song you did on the albums, you’d get $10 for writing it, and if you played at the rodeo, you got $5.”
https://www.keranews.org/arts-culture/2026-03-26/texas-prison-rodeo-music
#TexasPrisonRodeo #TheMarshallProject #RedemptionSongs #Music #DollyParton #WillieNelson #Jazz #BehindTheWalls #JohnnyCash #MauriceChammah #KERA
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When Texas was fertile ground for prison bands
"[T]he most moving lyrics are about loneliness, heartache and how incarceration strains families."
“The musicians skated around problems. The officers treated us better. Every song you did on the albums, you’d get $10 for writing it, and if you played at the rodeo, you got $5.”
https://www.keranews.org/arts-culture/2026-03-26/texas-prison-rodeo-music
#TexasPrisonRodeo #TheMarshallProject #RedemptionSongs #Music #DollyParton #WillieNelson #Jazz #BehindTheWalls #JohnnyCash #MauriceChammah #KERA
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When Texas was fertile ground for prison bands
"[T]he most moving lyrics are about loneliness, heartache and how incarceration strains families."
“The musicians skated around problems. The officers treated us better. Every song you did on the albums, you’d get $10 for writing it, and if you played at the rodeo, you got $5.”
https://www.keranews.org/arts-culture/2026-03-26/texas-prison-rodeo-music
#TexasPrisonRodeo #TheMarshallProject #RedemptionSongs #Music #DollyParton #WillieNelson #Jazz #BehindTheWalls #JohnnyCash #MauriceChammah #KERA
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When Texas was fertile ground for prison bands
"[T]he most moving lyrics are about loneliness, heartache and how incarceration strains families."
“The musicians skated around problems. The officers treated us better. Every song you did on the albums, you’d get $10 for writing it, and if you played at the rodeo, you got $5.”
https://www.keranews.org/arts-culture/2026-03-26/texas-prison-rodeo-music
#TexasPrisonRodeo #TheMarshallProject #RedemptionSongs #Music #DollyParton #WillieNelson #Jazz #BehindTheWalls #JohnnyCash #MauriceChammah #KERA
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When Texas was fertile ground for prison bands
"[T]he most moving lyrics are about loneliness, heartache and how incarceration strains families."
“The musicians skated around problems. The officers treated us better. Every song you did on the albums, you’d get $10 for writing it, and if you played at the rodeo, you got $5.”
https://www.keranews.org/arts-culture/2026-03-26/texas-prison-rodeo-music
#TexasPrisonRodeo #TheMarshallProject #RedemptionSongs #Music #DollyParton #WillieNelson #Jazz #BehindTheWalls #JohnnyCash #MauriceChammah #KERA
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“The panic over retail theft offers a real-time look at the making of American crime policy. In the absence of reliable data, and in response to perceptions of lawlessness, legislators have doubled down on punitive policies.”
This piece on theft propaganda by The Marshall Project is fascinating. You want more cops? Manipulate the crime numbers, then cry wolf.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/02/27/shoplifting-retail-theft-lawmakers-response
#Crime #Theft #Policing #TheMarshallProject #Journalism #Propaganda #AbolishThePolice
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"The panic over retail theft offers a real-time look at the making of American crime policy. In the absence of reliable data, and in response to perceptions of lawlessness, legislators have doubled down on punitive policies.
"Critics of the legislative response say that decades of research on crime deterrence makes clear that a harsher approach won’t have the desired effect, and will exacerbate the system’s racial disparities."
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/02/27/shoplifting-retail-theft-lawmakers-response
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