The gospel music flickers into range around mile 17 on the Tunica Trace, a trail formerly used by the Tunica Native American tribe paved into a 20-mile highway in West Feliciana Parish. As hundreds of cars pass churches releasing their congregations, the broadcast of 91.7 KLSP FM — “The Incarceration Station ”— sharpens.

“I'm doing the best I can; I’m doing the best I can,” Rev. Andrew Cheairs and The Songbirds sing. “While I'm traveling, I'm traveling through this land.”

The broadcast emanates from the road’s end: the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. It's a destination few ever leave, imprisoning around 3,900 inmates, with roughly 70% of those sentenced for life.

However, on Oct. 12, the prison’s inmate-run radio station played for thousands of people driving towards the Angola

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