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Welcome! You’re now subscribed to Redemption Songs, a new limited-run newsletter from The Marshall Project. Starting Sunday, March 22, we’ll be sending one song created behind bars to your inbox each week.
Spanning nearly a century, this music and its history reveal how American prisons once tried harder to help people seek rehabilitation through creativity, in turn inspiring the free world to welcome them home. But with the rise of mass incarceration, prison music didn’t disappear. It became a form of resistance. Each week, journalist Maurice Chammah will deliver a gem you might never have heard before, and some context for how this music came to be and what it tells us about the story of mass incarceration in the U.S. To follow along with the music of this series on video, subscribe to The Marshall Project on YouTube now.
We’ve found it affirming and reinvigorating to spend time with the work of these artists, and hope you do too. You’ll receive the first edition of this newsletter on March 22, and each Sunday after that for the next 25 weeks. Know someone else who would enjoy this newsletter? Invite them to sign up at this link.
Thank you,
Rachel Kincaid
Newsletter Strategist at The Marshall Project
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