Editing Prison Bound (section)

==Overview==
''Prison Bound'' took almost half a decade to materialize, with the initial attempt to record and release the follow-up to ''Mommy's Little Monster'' dating back to 1984.<ref>{{Cite web| title=Social Distortion | url=http://metallipromo.com/social.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118181016/http://metallipromo.com:80/social.html | archive-date=January 18, 2018}}</ref> The album was shelved for a few years, and it would not be re-recorded and completed until 1987, following frontman [[Mike Ness]]' recovery from drug addiction and Social Distortion's signing to then-[[independent record label|independent]] [[Restless Records|Restless]]/[[Enigma Records]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://loudwire.com/mike-ness-reflects-social-distortion-legacy/ | title=Mike Ness Reflects on Social Distortion's Legacy | website=[[Loudwire]] | date=February 21, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ocregister.com/2015/09/11/the-story-of-his-life-social-distortions-mike-ness-looks-back/ | title=The story of his life: Social Distortion's Mike Ness looks back | date=September 11, 2015 }}</ref> Unlike many of the band's albums, no singles were released for this album, but the title track "Prison Bound" received some heavy rotation from commercial radio stations (particularly [[KROQ-FM]]),<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rocklists.com/kroq-1988.html | title=KROQ Top 106.7 of 1988 }}</ref> and the song's success attracted attention from major labels, including [[Epic Records]], to whom Social Distortion would sign in 1989.

The first track, "It's the Law", is a remake of "Justice for All", which appeared on the 1981 compilation album ''The Future Looks Bright'' (and later on the 1995 compilation album ''[[Mainliner: Wreckage from the Past]]''). It also contains a cover version of "Backstreet Girl", originally recorded by [[the Rolling Stones]]. The album's title track references Johnny Cash's "[[I Walk the Line]]".