The song that plays over several of Taystee's scenes toward the end of the episode is Sam Cooke's recording of "The House I Live In." That 1942 song was best-known as the basis of a 1945 Frank Sinatra short film made toward the end of World War II to combat anti-Semitism. Its writers were both politically active; the composer, Earl Robinson, was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1950s, and the lyricist, Abel Meeropol (under the pen name Lewis Allan), also wrote the anti-lynching anthem "Strange Fruit" and adopted the young sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg after they were executed for espionage. "The House I Live In" was also the title of a 2012 Eugene Jarecki documentary about inequities in America's drug policies and criminal justice system.