An academic study into a music initiative with prisoners in Scotland could help shape the rehabilitation of offenders internationally.
Musicians from arts organisation Vox Liminis worked with prisoners and guest collaborators to record the music co-written with people within the criminal justice system.
Looking At Colours Again is the final EP from Vox’s Distant Voices songwriting project with prisoners around Scotland. The initiative – a collaboration between Vox Liminis and the University of Glasgow – has led to almost 300 new songs written in workshops led by Admiral Fallow frontman and Distant Voices leader Louis Abbott.
Now the outcomes from the project are set to be published, with a leading criminologist hopeful the insights gained through prisoners working in a creative setting can help influence approaches to rehabilitation internationally.