Nolan, Faith - Jailhouse Blues

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My name is Faith Nolan. For the the past six years I’ve been co-ordinating and collecting songs in my music workshops in two Ontario prisons. My new recording, a worthwhile project "I am a Prisoner", needs help to get done. As an independent singer songwriter for 30 years I spent time doing music for schools, unions, jails, countless benefits for AIDS, Homelessness, Anti-racism, etc… I have worked with Angela Davis, Odetta, Pete Seeger to name a few and been involved with music for women in jails for more than two decades. It is time to record this jailhouse music and I am asking for your help.

What is dead time?

Dead time is the time a person spends in jail before his or her bail hearing and time spent in jail after an unsuccessful bail hearing, but before a trial or sentencing hearing.

This type of jail is more accurately referred to as a pretrial custody centre. These places typically have less resources for the inmates than a prison or penitentiary, where an inmate will serve out a sentence. They are hubs, like an airport or a bus station, where people wait to figure out where they’re going next. The cells will typically be more crowded than in prisons or penitentiaries and there is little for the inmates to do. Rehabilitation programs and counselling services are non-existent or in short supply.

This trembling dance I can hardly speak

My tongue is frozen from stelazine

Staggering shuffling I got a crazy walk

High on these drugs I can barely talk

Drug Corporation’s countin’cash, we need a healing better than that

Drug Corporation’s countin’cash, we need a healing better than that

Hospital jail doctors hears what they say

Mental health means take pills everyday

Keeps you quiet and you won’t complain

Crowd control and Billions are made

Drug Corporation’s countin’cash, we need a healing better than that

Drug Corporation’s countin’cash, we need a healing better than that

Children who run around making noise

Prescribed Ritalin little girls and boys

Growing up stoned their brain can’t grow

What will become of us who knows

Drug Corporation’s countin’cash, we need a healing better than that

Drug Corporation’s countin’cash, we need a healing better than that

Penitentiary where it’s

Drug Corporation’s countin’cash

Money money money where it’s

Student debt you get depressed

Lost your job your love life’s a mess

Not good enough you’re just a human being

You only get respect with bling, bling, and bling

Drug Corporation’s countin’cash, we need a healing better than that

Drug Corporation’s countin’cash, we need a healing better than that

Drug Corporation’s countin’cash, we need a healing better than that

Drug corporations’ countin’cash, we need a healing better than that

Penitentiary where it’s

Drug Corporation’s countin’cash

Money money, money, where it’s

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