We speak with actor Common about his work bringing music into prisons, report on incarcerated people’s fight to overturn their convictions from the now-discredited forensic science of hair analysis and explore the long history of music as an outlet for prisoners to create a future for themselves when they get out.
Inside Story is a first-of-its-kind series created by The Marshall Project to engage with and bring information to one of America’s largest news deserts — its prisons and jails. Our series was developed by formerly incarcerated people, including host Lawrence Bartley and director Donald Washington, Jr.
