Incarceration


The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Just Mercy
Milo Imagines the World
An American Marriage
Visiting Day
From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington #1)
My Brother Is Away
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Punching the Air
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me
Missing Daddy
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
White Oleander by Janet FitchTable 21 by T. Rafael CiminoHarry Sue by Sue StauffacherAmber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart by Vera B. WilliamsDiary of a Freedom Writer by Darrius Garrett
Incarcerated Parents
84 books — 31 voters

The Green Mile by Stephen  KingDifferent Seasons by Stephen  KingPapillon by Henri CharrièreThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Prison Books
528 books — 247 voters
Corrections in Ink by Keri BlakingerOrange Is the New Black by Piper KermanLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  Hough30 Years Behind Bars by Karen  GedneyPrisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat
Women's prison memoirs
68 books — 50 voters

Stuart Turton
...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains. ...more
Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Bryan Stevenson
We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity.
Bryan Stevenson

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