You may or may not know about “Songs of Redemption”; it is a documentary shot inside the Tower Street Correctional Facility in Kingston, Jamaica.
The film features prison inmates on their road to rehabilitation in a program which uses music as an outreach mechanism.
Today, the documentary, which had won three major awards at film festivals in Los Angeles, Toronto and Trinidad, was shown to select inmates at the Belize Central Prison. 7News attended, and we spoke to the EU Ambassador to Belize, who told us about how it has been used all throughout Jamaica as a teaching tool:
The administration at the Belize Central Prison has pledged to adopt parts of the rehab program from Tower Street.
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