When Youth Radio’s Orlando Campbell visited San Quentin State Penitentiary, he connected with 26-year-old Christopher Shurn. They happened to meet just days before Chris’ release. For Orlando, a rapper who performs under the name Roach Gigz, it was natural for him to mix his own lyrics with Chris’reflections on how incarceration has shaped his life. That’s what you’ll hear in this story.

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