Category: Crime & Punishment
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Incarceration Nation
Lyrics By: Marcy Matasick, New Mexico RGs Tune: Folsom Prison Blues A couple million peopleand many innocentsare doing time, and lots of time –time and time again.What a waste of their potentialto make them waste away.Seems…
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Until the Plan for the Jail is Undone
Tune: Home on the Range By Laurie Rostholder Chorus: We don't want a youth jail. A place where our kids go to fail. We want money spent On plans with intent To keep our kids learning…
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Unequal Treatment
by Kay Thode tune: Coming Round the Mountain If you’re poor and use cocaine, You’ll go to jail. If you’re black and use cocaine, You’ll go to jail. They will slap you in the cooler And…
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Two Million Are in Jail
by Kay Thode tune: Coming Round the Mountain Oh, two million in our country are in jail, Two million in our country are in jail. A main reason is the drug war, And we are here…
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Three Strikes
by Kay Thode tune: Coming Round the Mountain If you’re jailed for three drug crimes, You’re there for life! If you’re jailed for three drug crimes You’re there for life! They have jailed five hundred thousand…
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Profiling Opera
by Monica Zucker tune: Mack the Knife Oh, police have perfect vision To distinguish wrong from right. Their decisions are made easy— It’s like telling black from white. Oh, the drug war gives incentive For a…