John Sinclair, 82, Dies; Counterculture Activist Who Led a ‘Guitar Army’

April 4, 2024Posted inDeaths (Obituaries), False Arrests, Convictions and Imprisonments, Lennon, John, Marijuana, MC5, Michigan, Music, Ono, Yoko, Pop and Rock Music, Prisons and Prisoners, Sinclair, John A, White Panther Party
His imprisonment for a minor marijuana offense became a cause célèbre. He was released after John Lennon and Yoko Ono sang about him at a protest rally.

The History of the Lynching Site Where Jason Aldean Filmed ‘Try That in a Small Town’

July 21, 2023Posted inAldean, Jason, Assaults, Black People, Country Music, Country Music Television, False Arrests, Convictions and Imprisonments, Henry Choate, Lynching, Maury County, Tenn., Music, Tennessee, Video Recordings, Downloads and Streaming, Whites
Henry Choate, an 18-year-old Black man, was hanged outside the Maury County Courthouse in Tennessee in 1927 after he was falsely accused of attacking a white girl.

The Artists Taking on Mass Incarceration

August 11, 2022Posted inAi Weiwei, Art, Betts, Reginald Dwayne, Culture, Davis, Angela Y, False Arrests, Convictions and Imprisonments, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Book), Museums, Noguchi, Isamu, Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shootings, Prisons and Prisoners, Scott, Dread (Artist), spon=twomensfallfashion
More and more art is challenging long-held assumptions about the criminal justice system.