Kurt Andersen and musician Steve Earle explore the powerful connections between art and prison. We look at the musical legacy of the Attica Prison uprising, hear about a California prison built underground to accommodate a landmark, and meet novelist Eddie Bunker, an ex-con who mines his material from two decades of incarceration. Also, we see how the U.S. immigration service turns away foreign performers at our border, when the INS considers the art “culturally insignificant.”
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