In 1940, a blues musician named Bukka White recorded "Parchman Farm Blues" about the infamous prison labor farm in the Mississippi Delta. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PARCHMAN FARM BLUES") WHITE: (Singing) ...

Their crimes range from drug possession to armed robbery to homicide. But inside this austere classroom, they're all college students. The course is The Blues Tradition in American Literature. They're ...

In 1940, a blues musician named Bukka White recorded "Parchman Farm Blues" about the infamous prison labor farm in the Mississippi Delta. WHITE: (Singing) But I hope someday I will overcome. CHANG: ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. — Nine big men sit attentively at their desks inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary —the once infamous prison labor colony known as Parchman Farm. They're wearing green-and-white ...

Parchman Farm was once one of the country's most notorious prisons. The University of Mississippi has introduced college-level classes to offer inmates some education, and teach them about the Blues.