so she's doing this album that she wrote with inmates from folsom prison and making it with any different my sister's doing a documentary about it about it and it's to bring to light how much of a difference it makes to have this artistic outlet for people and. you know receive is a how do you say that were received as the recidivism recidivism goes down when they have these programs of programs and you know if we can start that and not take away you know the funding for the arts and funding for school arts programs and actually start that at a young age and have people be able to take their time doing something creative that feeds their soul and not only take up their time so they're not out doing other things that. might be bad for them but it's also just feeding into their their purpose in life and. yeah i think that that's very misunderstood because a lot of people just think like oh well we don't need like interest like fluffy right like ok you go home and watch t.v. don't you like you listen to music don't you what what would the world be without this and yeah that's all i have to s

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san quentin is a handful of american prisons who like a pop star or a-list celebrity for some reason rise to an iconic single-name status like alcatraz, folsomrahway, or britney, which, of course, means that johnny cash recorded an album there. now why in the world would i be going there? well, whether we like to think about it or not, there are human beings behind these walls. yes, some very bad ones, but then some who i've heard are just people who have done bad things, some who just made mistakes, got caught up in the system. and i want to meet these men to find out what life is really like in prison and see if they are being rehabilitated, or are they all doomed to become another statistic in the ever growing business that is prison? >> thank you. >> and more than any other prison in the san francisco area, san quentin is known for its cutting-edge rehabilitation programs. all trying to cut down on the rate orecivi average rate of recidivism is 60%. that means 60% of prisoners return within three years of being released. and that fact is only the beginning of what is a disturbing reality that is the prison system in this country. to get