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

Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you.

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

Hattie Ellis was poised for post-prison fame. Then she encountered shotcallers who didn’t value her voice.

The Bootlegging, Blues Singing Star of 1930s Prison Radio

The Bootlegging, Blues Singing Star of 1930s Prison Radio

Police used the Vallejo, California, rapper’s music against him. He used his jailhouse album to call them out by name.

The rappers argue that James Broadnax’s case exemplifies a larger problem in American courtrooms: The use of rap lyrics as evidence.

Meet B. Alexis, the First Woman to Release an Album From Prison

In a new book, Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen questions how courts and prisons use psychopathy diagnoses — and whether they should at all.

Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you.

Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you.