The Peaceful Village Band
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In the early 1920's a group of inmates from the Jefferson City State Penitentiary, the prison's Peaceful Village Band, used their musical talents to rise to national fame. Some of the members leveraged this notoriety to shorten their sentences. Today's episode of Fact or Fiction looks at this group of inmates who’d been incarcerated in Missouri’s only maximum security prison for crimes varying from check fraud to murder.
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