Julius Smith is hogging the phones at the Taylor Correctional Institute in Perry, northern Florida. He dials the same number on both phones, making sure he’s able to hear clearly on both lines.
One is being used like headphones and he’s listening to a beat crackling over the phone line. The other is his microphone, where he records the lines of “Hands Up,” a song he wrote while in while in lockdown:
We are not free. …