Ani DiFranco, Zoë Boekbinder, Terence Higgins and more will be participating in a prison reform benefit livestream for 'Long Time Gone'
. Profits from the concert will benefit Sister Hearts Re-Entry Program and the Center for Life Without Parole Studies.penned by Spoon Jackson. “There are two million people in prison in the U.S. and each one of them has a story to tell.
Nine of them are on this record,” DiFranco toldare diverse in scope and sound, as are the people involved, but we are united in our humanity and in our hope for a more just justice system. In this time of human versus virus, when so many behind bars are sitting ducks, I hope we can address the reality of mass incarceration and fix it.”
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