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From a studio in a Cameroon jail, a revolutionary record label gives inmates a voice, with ambitions to expand across Africa.

As Jail Time Records releases its fifth single, imprisoned and recently released artists describe how making music has changed their lives<br>Photographs by Dione Roach

Show more Vidou H was a music producer and DJ with an enviable life in Cameroon, but everything changed when he and his brothers were falsely accused of murder. He was sent to a tough overcrowded prison to await trial, a process that took two years. For much of that time he had no access to music, until a recording studio was set up inside, the idea of an Italian artist called Dione Roach. Dione hoped music could help with rehabilitation and Vidou H was quickly put in charge of ...