Maurice Chammah

Two Teens In Custody Wrote a Song in an Arts Program. One Didn’t Survive.

The Lifers Group Tried to Warn Kids About the Perils of Prison

‘Music From the Big House’ Delivers Blues and Soul from Angola Prison

In “9131,” incarcerated composer Joseph Wilson depicts a wife’s infidelity while her husband is up for parole.

The racial disparities, the arbitrary outcomes, the endless waiting and the risk of executing the innocent persist.

The call-and-response song was one of many that Black men sang as they toiled on Southern prison farms.

Ike White’s prison opus “Changin’ Times” is finally getting its due.

The Harlem MC explains how prison gave him the freedom to rap about more than material things.

Singer, songwriter, drummer and pianist Morgan White appeared on five albums inside Texas prisons. Outside, he said no to the music industry.

The Trump administration’s embrace of the firing squad may test the public’s waning support for capital punishment.