Prisons


Are Prisons Obsolete?
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Green Mile
Different Seasons
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Just Mercy
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Orange Is the New Black
Assata: An Autobiography
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Affinity
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David ThoreauThe Long Loneliness by Dorothy DayLetter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.Non-Violent Resistance by Mahatma GandhiAcross That Bridge by John             Lewis
Civil Disobedients
81 books — 22 voters

Colors of the Cage by Arun FerreiraThe Jail Notebook and Other Writings by Bhagat SinghFrom Phansi Yard by Sudha BharadwajFractured Freedom by Kobad GhandyThere’s Gunpowder in the Air by Manoranjan Byapari
Books on Prison Life in India
7 books — 1 voter
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan PoeThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Valley of Unknowing by Philip Sington
Walls
275 books — 42 voters

Leo Tolstoy
“ All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other conditions could produce it, and for the spreading of this condensed depravity and vice broadcast among the whole population. ”
― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

Steven Magee
“ Prisoners are often denied their basic human rights by their captors. ”
― Steven Magee

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