Artwork created by prisoners and patients in secure hospitals is on display in Liverpool.
The exhibition, Art by Offenders and Secure Patients, is the city's first to show and sell artwork from people held in secure units and on probation in the North West.
Paintings, sculpture, creative writing and music are exhibited in the Contemporary Urban Centre.
Work was selected from entries to the 2010 Koestler Awards charitable scheme.
'Come to terms'
Chief Executive of the Koestler Trust Tim Robertson told BBC Radio Merseyside the scheme encouraged offenders to communicate through art.
"To do well in the arts you have to be disciplined. Offenders are people who have failed to take account of the effect of their actions on other people at some point.
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