The Pros and Cons Program helps create music in prisons to support healing, restorative justice, victim support, and education.
"Want to know what hope and transformation sound like? Check out these two brand new Pros and Cons albums, produced by offenders [at] two Ontario federal institutions. Buy the music and support the work."
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CBC News: Prison arts program brings Grammy-winning guitarist behind bars for performance
“It started with some quiet toe-tapping, but as the sounds of bass, drums and guitar swelled over the course of…
I went to prison with Bill Frisell
Interview with Bill Frisell “Two years ago I went to prison with Bill Frisell. This week he’s going back. Before…
Toronto Star: This Toronto singer-songwriter brings musicians into prisons. Now, a jazz great is coming back for an encore
“American jazz guitarist Bill Frisell is one of the gentlest, most soft-spoken musicians you’re likely to ever meet, with the…
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Private Town
Pros & Cons' second album recorded at Grand Valley Institution For Women.
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Undisclosed Location.
Undisclosed Location was recorded in 2017 and 2018 at Grand Valley Institution For Women. All the songs on this album were written and sung by inmates.
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Postcards From The County
...was recorded by men incarcerated in the Pittsburgh Institution near Kingston Ontario, Canada.
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