Digital Music Behind Bars

Soundcheck | Mar 20, 2012

In 2010, rapper Lil Wayne got solitary confinement for smuggling an MP3 player into his Rikers Island jail cell. But a new program would allow federal prison inmates to upgrade from CD players and Walkmans to digital music players. Today: Music behind bars – in the iPod age. Plus: A live performance from David Gedge and his long-running band, The Wedding Present.

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