Concert gives inmates a musical outlet behind bars

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Inmates at the Collins Bay Institution in Kingston, Ont., jammed out to a concert this week put on by an arts rehabilitation program. Musician Hugh Christopher Brown started Pros and Cons 13 years ago to teach inmates songwriting and recording.

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