Continuing the series of "Beyond Bars" performances by corrections facility inmates in 2011, this series aims to showcase the results of arts and culture education among inmates. The series are as follows:

     (1) The "Beat of Encouragement" Percussion Band

     This Changhua Prison percussion band has won widespread praise for its drum skills, and has often been invited to outside performances, including to the 2013 Confucian Culture Festival in the town of Erlin in Changhua, the Zhuyou Zen Drum Band and Changhua Prison Percussion Band Year-end Concert in Hsinchu, the 2014 Young Drummers' Wandering School Project: Warrior's Sword in Yuanlin, Changhua, and the Above Taiwan Concert at the Taipei Arena. All won rave reviews from the general public.

     (2) Phoenix Rising Joint Orchestra

     Continuing its work with juvenile delinquents and for promoting music, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra once again helped with the instruction of wind orchestras in Changhua Reform School, Mingyang High School, and Chengzheng High School in 2013. On November 9, 2013, the Phoenix Rising Joint Concert featuring all three schools was held at a recital hall in Wufeng District, Taichung. The program included familiar classics such as "Tomorrow Will Be Better," "Longing for the Spring Breeze," "A Thankful Heart," and "A Man Must Help Himself." The students showed the results of their practice over the past half year; both in their individual and joint pieces, they worked together perfectly to make wonderful music. Through their performances, the students conveyed what they learned about music and about life to their parents and to the rest of the audience.

     (3) Sunshine Choir

     The Sunshine Choir is composed of inmates from Taichung Prison. They have had many public performances and won praise for their beautiful sound. In the national performance recital for corrections facility inmates in August 2013, the Choir performed on stage in Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. They took part in a touring performance by corrections facility inmates in Taichung on September 3 and 4, 2013. On July 18, 2014 they were invited to perform at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the expansion of Taichung Women's Prison. On October 13, 2014 they were also invited to perform in the 2014 Cross-Strait Conference on Corrections Measures. Their voices touched all who attended. In addition to proving that inmates can be educated and reformed, the success of the Sunshine Choir also shows the dedication of Taichung Prison to arts and culture education.