Q2 2025 UPDATE: This campaign oscillates between stop and start due to its largely volunteer nature, and is currently in a stop phase while we scale other aspects of our organization. Check back for updates.

You can view our archive of past updates below:

update 7 / UPDATE 6 / UPDATE 5 / UPDATE 4
UPDATE 3 / UPDATE 2 / UPDATE 1

Contact: This campaign is on hold at the moment, but you can always contact us at info [@] freerrecords [dot] com if you have questions. Expect a slow response time.

Mission:

On April 22, 2021, FREER Records (FR - at the time Die Jim Crow Records) and the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) launched a gear drive to support incarcerated musicians.

Prisons across the country too often lack access to quality instruments and proper environments for making music. Our mission for the Instruments Into Prisons campaign is to supply FR-affiliated musicians and non-affiliated alike with tools outlet to express their creativity while serving time. For some, this may be the remainder of their life.

Most donations of gear for music production and performance will be utilized (and then some) by these musicians.

Banner photo: (L-R) Phillip “Archi” Archuleta, Kevin Woodley, Gilbert “Lefty” Pacheco & Michael Tenneson of Territorial. Photo: Fury Young