From Cold Jaws Prison / Var: From Cold Jaws Prison / Various

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From Cold Jaws Prison / Various

Artist:

Various Artists

Label:

Folkways Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

093070540323

Genre:

Spoken

Sub Genre:

African

Release Date:

2012-05-30

Number of Discs:

1

What you will hear on this recording is a cry of a people for justice and human dignity. You don't know what freedom is unless you've experienced the chains from which to break free. The poems and music presented on this album were written and compiled by African-American inmates and ex-inmates of three prisons in the New York system-Attica, Rikers Island, and the Tombs. Their work speaks not only of the conditions faced in prison but to the broader African American experience outside prison walls where "Down went the junkie with the monkey on his back, the white world laughed because the junkie was Black."

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