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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
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4.23 avg rating — 12,772 ratings
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 260,780 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 117,033 ratings
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Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
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4.31 avg rating — 1,831 ratings
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Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
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4.30 avg rating — 6,051 ratings
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Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
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4.27 avg rating — 5,852 ratings
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Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice
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4.05 avg rating — 1,869 ratings
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Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
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4.39 avg rating — 839 ratings
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Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions
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4.38 avg rating — 337 ratings
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The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City
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4.15 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Black and Blue Lives: How to Survive and Reform American Criminal Justice
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Juror Number 2: The Story of a Murder, the Agony of a Neighborhood
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3.35 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Locked Up: Some Reflections on Prison
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4.15 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration
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4.18 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Born Innocent: Protecting the Dependents of Accused Caregivers
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Actual Innocence
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3.21 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Stolen Years: Stories of the Wrongfully Imprisoned
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4.19 avg rating — 67 ratings
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After the Madness
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3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
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4.14 avg rating — 398 ratings
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From Jailer to Jailed: My Journey from Correction and Police Commissioner to Inmate #84888-054
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3.67 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison
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4.26 avg rating — 671 ratings
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Race, Incarceration, and American Values (Boston Review Books)
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4.01 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
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4.65 avg rating — 80,484 ratings
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Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us
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4.44 avg rating — 640 ratings
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An American Marriage
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3.93 avg rating — 384,906 ratings
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
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4.15 avg rating — 9,076 ratings
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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4.27 avg rating — 81,210 ratings
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Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
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4.07 avg rating — 1,420 ratings
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Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
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3.64 avg rating — 2,899 ratings
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Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York
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4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
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4.30 avg rating — 1,097 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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4.38 avg rating — 7,117 ratings
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I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!
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3.97 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as Prophet for Our Time
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3.88 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Fearless Dialogues: A New Movement for Justice
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4.18 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Districts: Stories of American Justice from the Federal Courts
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4.19 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights
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4.20 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Justice Failed
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3.93 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right
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4.15 avg rating — 920 ratings
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Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
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4.30 avg rating — 357 ratings
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The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror
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3.63 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Attica Turkey Shoot: Carnage, Cover-Up, and the Pursuit of Justice
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4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Fugitive Man: Hunting Violent Criminals for the FBI and Searching for Justice for the Innocent Convict
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4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America
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4.13 avg rating — 167 ratings
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With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
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4.25 avg rating — 1,313 ratings
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
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4.31 avg rating — 853 ratings
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Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics
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3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Sick Justice: Inside the American Gulag
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4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption
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4.18 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
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4.16 avg rating — 439 ratings
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The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
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4.05 avg rating — 4,328 ratings
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Dealing Death and Drugs: The Big Business of Dope in the U.S. and Mexico (Cinco Puntos Checkpoint Series)
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3.96 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Capital Offenses: Business Crime and Punishment in America's Corporate Age
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3.78 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring
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4.42 avg rating — 666 ratings
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Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy
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4.37 avg rating — 350 ratings
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