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  • Americans want fewer prisoners. What's art have to do with it?

    "Songs in the Key of Free" is a program in a Pennsylvania prison brings together inmates to play music and write songs that they perform inside, while professional musicians also play the songs in venues outside prison. The program is just a year old and is based on a successful theater program in California that cut recidivism rates and helped decrease prison infractions. The founders of "Songs in the Key of Free" are creating an album of the work, but after that, future funding is unclear.

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  • Quaker City Coffee is betting that former drug dealers will make good entrepreneurs

    Quaker City Coffee Company taps into the skills and expertise of formerly incarcerated people while providing much needed jobs. The company is small, but it aims to serve as a model for other such efforts to help ex-cons find employment.

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