The Crime of Prison

“Disciplinary power … is exercised through its invisibility; at the same time it imposes on those whom it subjects a principle of compulsory visibility.” —Michel Foucault

Although incarceration is universal, its generous application is uniquely American. We hear stark, visceral samples that illuminate cruel truths, creatIng a dark, haunting excursion into U.S. prisons.

DIG•SCAPE is an audio alternative-phenomenological-impressionistic, multicultural soundscape mashup of loud issues, intuition+research and multisampled insights investigating our current wackadoodle malaise from an askew, engaged and anomalous vantage point.

Playlist

Mental Illness • Prison
Institution • Kodak Black
Meant • Wordclock
Prison • Void
Jail Call • Casanova
What Prison Sounds Like • Prisoner at HM Prison Oakwood
Son of a Guard • Train [Bulletproof Picasso]
Institutionalized • Suicidal Tendencies
We Like To Party • Crazy Frog
Pure • Guerilla Warfare & $oapowder
Early In The Mornin’ • 22, Little Red, Tangle Eye, & Hard Hair
Black Woman • BB & Six Others
Slavery • KRS-One
I Can’t Wake Up Instrumental • KRS-One
BREATH4 • Charlie Morrow
BB King Teaches How to Solo Over a Blues Progression • BB King
Whistle While You Work • Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra
Solitude / L1 Dub • Jah Wobble & Chinese Dub Orchestra
Lord My Cell Is Cold • Armand Schaubroeck
Central Park 1850 & Birds Flying • Charlie Morrow
Folsom Prison Blues Stripped • Wage War
Birds Piggelmee May 2020 • b/art

Sources

60,000 US prisoners face psychological torture of solitary confinement / American prisons are hell. For women / Mother of 5 dies in jail / Isolation Mind Field / How America’s justice system is rigged against the poor / The Documentary so Disturbing They tried to Destroy it / Why The US Prison System Is The Worst In The World / 13 Investigates: Jail phone calls / Part 1: My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard / Florida inmate secretly films horrible conditions behind bars / Solitary Confinement: Is It Torture / California’s Prison Isolation Units / InDepth Look At Life On Rikers Island Hell Plain And Simple / Broken bones, bloodied prisoners / Welcoming committee: Leaked video shows officers beating / Alabama prison conditions deemed unconstitutional / Twisted Truth Of The US Prison System Revealed / How megacorporations exploit US prison labor / Civil Rights activist Death of George Jackson Angela Davis / “The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth” Mumia Abu Jamal / Dying Inside Elderly in Prison – Fault Lines /   Death of a Revolutionary: payment for life is death end George Jackson / 3 prison guards charged in death of inmate / Prison Labor Modern Day Slavery / Raleigh inmate assaulted and killed in prison by other inmates officials / Sick Inside: Death and Neglect in US Jails Fault Lines / Son Of Man Beaten To Death By Guards In Prison Blind Spot Demands Answers /  Solitary Confinement is Crazy Loud FRONTLINE / Do the Dutch have the answer to the UKs prison crisis / Billy Bragg Cynicism Is Our Greatest Enemy / Washington Prison Creates Blue Room To Calm Inmates with Nature Videos / Life behind bars gets new twist in empty Dutch prisons / Civil Rights activist Death of George Jackson / Wreck Bob Dub Ross 1257 / RBG-GEORGE JACKSON TRIBUTE FILM

Prison [Austin Coupe] / Kodak Black / Wordclock / Void vs GhostSickness / Casanova / Prisoner at HM Prison Oakwood / Train / Suicidal Tendencies / Crazy Frog / Guerilla Warfare & $oapowder / 22, Little Red, Tangle Eye, & Hard Hair / BB & Six Others / KRS-One / Charlie Morrow / BB King / Shep Fields & his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra / Jah Wobble / Armand Schaubroeck / Wage War / b/art