NOW Magazine: "…the first album made inside a Canadian federal women's prison"
Carlos March 21, 2018 Media, News, Pros and Cons Program
It looks like a community centre or a campus – inmates live in shared housing, wear their own clothes, order groceries once a week – but Kitchener's Grand Valley Institution for Women is a prison. "We can walk around [between buildings]," an inmate tells me, "but we can't leave." We're sitting in a gymnasium set up for a special International …
570 News: Women's prison in Kitchener releases music album in a Canadian first
Talk about dropping bars behind bars. Inmates at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener have released a 10-song music album, called "Undisclosed Location." It's the first album written and recorded at a federal women's prison in Canada and part of the Pros and Cons Program. Founder of the program Hugh Christopher Brown tells 570 NEWS it all started …
CBC News: Women at Kitchener's Grand Valley prison release first musical album
When she first walked through the doors of the music room at Grand Valley Institution for Women, Bayley didn't know what to expect. "I never knew I was musically inclined," she told CBC News køb viagra i danmark. "I never played an instrument before in my life." But when another inmate put a bass guitar in her hands and a …
The Morning Edition K-W shares Lost, from Undisclosed Location
Carlos March 9, 2018 Media, News, Pros and Cons Program
Listen to "Lost", as shared by CBC Kitchener Waterloo's The Morning Edition.
Waterloo Region Record: Grand Valley inmates celebrate release of album
KITCHENER — The voices of inmates at Grand Valley Institution for Women will be heard around the world through a groundbreaking new album released online. It's the first album written and recorded at a federal women's prison in Canada, and available for anyone to listen for free. "I hope that the music first of all moves them on its own …
Rethinking Prison: Music and Life Beyond Punishment
Carlos July 30, 2015 Media, News
In his talk, Hugh Christopher Brown explains how the instigation of a music program with inmates taught him the importance of mentorship in prison; and how its effects on convicts deepened his understanding of what music is.