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My Return to Prison: Views on the Failed Drug War from Inside Sing Sing

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

May 15, 2009 My Return to Prison: Views on the Failed Drug War from Inside Sing Sing By Wayne Kramer Huffington Post On Saturday, May 2nd 2009, I returned to prison. Again. Tom Morello, Jerry Cantrell, Billy Bragg, Perry Farrell & Etty Lau Farrell, Gilby Clarke, Boots Riley, Carl Restivo, Dave Gibbs, Don Was, Handsome Dick Manitoba, Eric Gardner and the Road Recovery staff went with me. The prison was the infamous Sing Sing maximum-security facility in Ossining, New York. I talked with the prisoners and we played music for them. And we went in with the blessing of the New York State Department of Corrections to inaugurate a new program focusing on inmate rehabilitation. To tell you the truth, I didn't think it would happen. I could not have been more wrong...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 16, 2009 (boomark / email).