Freedom to Play: Music As Prison Rehabilitation

Can music heal us? The Decoda chamber ensemble is convinced it can by making music accessible to everyone. Every year, the New York City-based collective spends one week at the Lee Correctional Institution teaching inmates at the maximum security facility to play and compose music as part of a rehabilitation program.

Disclaimer: due to the sensitive nature of filming in a maximum security prison, we are not identifying the prisoners in this program.

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