CONVICTS serving life at Liverpool Prison have released a CD of tunes they wrote behind bars.
Songs from the Big House was written and performed by inmates after the jail employed a professional producer to spend eight weeks working with them.
The seven-track album, which includes a song by a man serving life about how he is trying to come to terms with his sentence, will now go on sale in the prison shop and could eventually hit high street music stores.
The prison will not reveal how much money the project has cost but said it had been funded by the Department for Education.
Delia Brady-Jacobs, 42, runs the Big House Art programme which organised the project.
She said: "The difference this has made to these men is massive. One lad had been quite badly behaved but as soon as he got involved in this his behaviour improved and it has stayed that way.
"It became a 24 hour a day project for them. They were giving up other privileges to take part and staying up late to write more lyrics.
"I did a lot of work with them before as well on group dynamics and how to work as a team.
"In a place like this where putting on a front is everything and small things really matter it was great to see them cooperating and helping each other.
"They let their masks go and really opened up emotionally.
