You and every other person that responded missed my point.

How is learning to sing songs going to help keep any of these women stay out of prison? How will it help them in the real world, to pay their rent, their bills, or get a job?  How will it keep them away from the life that put them there in the first place? Drugs? Alcohol?

While I appreciate that it helps the children, I'm concerned with the actual community benefit. After all when a good percentage these women are released they will likely return to the community and commit more crimes. Recidivism in Alaska is high.