looks at the carceral state of the United States and considers how music programs can shift the perspective of prisons and prisoners includes song lyrics from incarcerated composers engages with the racial politics of prisons and US society – in one example the prison would not allow a song to include the words Black Lives Matter for fear of repercussions goes beyond the idea of music for rehabilitation to show how music education contributes to personal and social growth and provides bridges between those incarcerated and the larger community