The Carceral City Alice Reeves this book is essential reading

this book is essential reading for any music therapist and student of music therapy

and we are disturbed by any authoritarian effort to impose one point of view on America

and each of us can prepare for the end in better ways

" - Paul McArdle

or lawyers

The Carceral City Alice Reeves this book is essential readingAmericans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders were deeply reliant on coercive state action. Authorities built massive slave