Prison


Orange Is the New Black
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Straight Boy (Straight Guys, #0)
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Hold (Hold, #1)
Freshman (Behind Bars, #1)
Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)
Protection
The Green Mile
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Hard Time
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Papillon
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
The Mars Room
Norman Mailer
We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.
Norman Mailer, In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison

G.I. Gurdjieff
You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape. ...more
G.I. Gurdjieff

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