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Musical bars: Singing through the prison walls

After recording an album live in prison, Naima Shalhoub donates 50 percent of proceeds to inmate re-entry programs

Singer Naima Shalhoub leads weekly music sessions with incarcerated women at a San Francisco County jail. On May 5, she recorded her debut album, “Borderlands,” live at the jail. AJ+'s Dena Takruri caught up with Shalhoub to find out what the music means to the women and what insights she has gained about the prison industrial complex in the U.S.

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