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I didn't get a chance to work on it until the Sunday afternoon. It was like buying a lottery ticket – either I write something and it might get accepted or I don't write something and not give myself a chance." [1] Caswell recorded the song on a portable cassette player "and gave it to his publisher who delivered it without listening to it ...
The Lifers Group's music project grew out of the "Lifers Group", an organization founded in 1972 by incarcerated men at Rahway State Prison sentenced to twenty-five years to life. [2] In 1976 the Lifers Group created their Juvenile Awareness Program. Young people would be brought into the prison and put in a meeting room with life-sentenced ...
Inmates working for state-owned businesses earned between US$0.33 and US$1.41 per hour in 2017 – about twice the amount paid to inmates who work regular prison jobs. [ 10 ] With a few exceptions, regular prison jobs (cleaning, groundskeeping, kitchen and clerical work) remain unpaid in the U.S. states of Florida , South Carolina , Georgia ...
Proposition 6 would end mandatory work requirements for state prisoners, instead making jobs voluntary for incarcerated people. It would also protect prisoners from being disciplined for refusing ...
The program, originally launched in Georgia, has been adapted for two Kansas prisons.
Portable music took a groovy turn when 8-track players hit the scene in the early ’70s. These clunky devices played music from thicker magnetic tape cartridges, and portable version allowed ...
The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, [2] audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips , the Compact Cassette was released in August 1963.
DC-International is a tape cassette format developed by Grundig [1] and marketed in 1965. DC is the abbreviation of "Double Cassette", as the cassette contained two reels; International was intended to indicate that, from the beginning, several companies around the world supported the format with suitable tape cassette tape recorders, recorded music cassettes and blank cassettes.