Chain Gang All Stars

Es, eye, em, oh, en.

I’m going away. I don’t think I’m coming back.[*1] I’ve seen men go away for half a year for contraband.[*2] I ain’t get stuck with contraband.[*3]

I might come out.

I don’t think I’m coming back.

*1 America locks more people in isolation than any other democratic country.

*2 Albert Woodfox spent forty-three years and ten months in isolation. Robert King spent twenty-nine years in solitary before he was released. Herman Wallace. Herman Wallace. Herman Wallace. Herman Wallace. He died of liver cancer two days after they killed him for forty-two years.

Albert Woodfox, Herman Wallace, and Robert King, Albert Woodfox, Herman Wallace, and Robert King, Robert and Herman and Albert. Herman and Robert and Albert. Wallace, Woodfox, King.

*3 The incarcerated can be placed in solitary confinement for nonviolent offenses such as possessing contraband or insubordination. Segregated housing is also sometimes used for the “protection” of the incarcerated individual.