rehabilitation: Music behind the bars: When prisoners turn maestros
MUSIC WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY INCARCERATED PEOPLE HAS THE POWER TO TRANSFORM HOW WE THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT.One morning in 2019, Kenyatta Emmanuel Hughes was released from Fishkill Correctional Facility, in Beacon, N.Y., and traveled roughly 70 miles south to Carnegie Hall. That night he stood before a crowd - flanked by a horn section, a string quartet and backup singers - and sang words he'd written […]