Lava Records founder Jason Flom is best known as a one of the most successful label heads and A&R reps of the past 30 years, with top posts at Atlantic Records and Virgin-EMI, and founder of La…
multimedia platform. Here, he addresses artists and music companies that are partnering with “web of private corporations and public institutions” profiting from the prison industry.
I’ve been a music executive for more than four decades. And over that time, I’ve witnessed the power that music has to generate hope and inspire people. Creating music is an act of love and service. Criminal justice work is similar. It too has the power to transform lives, and it is a cause that I have been deeply passionate and vocal about throughout my career. Through this work, I have the privilege of spending time with incarcerated people and their families, and I am grateful for what they have taught me, including the grave cost of incarceration.
The prison industry is a web of private corporations and public institutions that brings in more than from a brutal system of mass caging and control that owes its roots to slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the racialized terror that has continued since. It includes correctional industries that force unpaid labor, healthcare providers that deny people care, commissary vendors that overcharge for basic products, and others.
. In speaking to people inside nearly every day, I can say with confidence that partnering with the industry that profits off incarceration is not the way to show support. As Bianca Tylek, Executive Director at Worth Rises and an advocate I trust deeply, has explained, “there is no pathway to hope through the prison industry.”
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