A folk song, written in the early 1980s, about role that U.S. university law schools and most of their law school graduates play in helping to perpetuate the prison-industrial complex, mass incarceration and insttutional classism and inequality in the USA.
chorus)
They rob you of your life
They beat you when you rebel
They chain you in a cage
George Jackson knew it so well.
(verses)
Law school taught the judge to sentence that man to death
Law school taught the D.A. to try to suppress the Left
Law school trained that youth to lie for the corporate board
Law school pumps out pigs, and justice is ignored. (chorus)
Law school teaches men to twist truth if they can
Law school teaches women to imitate crooked men
Law school trained that youth who sent that Black man to jail
Law school pumps out pigs, and justice does not prevail. (chorus)
Law school excludes the poor who might want to change the rules
Law school excludes the merciful who might seek to be moral
Law school trained that thief to steal for the businessmen
Law school pumps out pigs, and justice does not win. (chorus)
Law school taught the rich to go seek an injunction
Law school taught the tricks so property can be secured
Law school trained that parasite who bullies the working-class
Law school pumps out pigs, but Justice will not submit.