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Are Prisons Obsolete?
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4.51 avg rating — 29,688 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 116,616 ratings
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 259,404 ratings
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
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4.34 avg rating — 6,690 ratings
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Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
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4.46 avg rating — 209 ratings
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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
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4.56 avg rating — 459 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 — 7,106 ratings
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Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time
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4.15 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex
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4.39 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
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4.43 avg rating — 54 ratings
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An Autobiography
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4.44 avg rating — 10,728 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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4.24 avg rating — 36,605 ratings
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Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
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4.47 avg rating — 1,683 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
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4.60 avg rating — 30,820 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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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
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3.99 avg rating — 4,428 ratings
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Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
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4.43 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex
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4.37 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Prisons of Poverty
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4.17 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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4.45 avg rating — 4,902 ratings
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Crime & Punishment: Offenders and Victims in a Broken Justice System (Redback Quarterly #5)
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4.09 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire
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3.94 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
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4.41 avg rating — 1,230 ratings
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Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System
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4.17 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
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4.44 avg rating — 1,127 ratings
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The Violence of Incarceration (Routledge Advances in Criminology)
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Letter from the Birmingham Jail
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4.72 avg rating — 8,648 ratings
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The Real Cost of Prisons Comix
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4.34 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
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4.14 avg rating — 9,050 ratings
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A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
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3.82 avg rating — 580 ratings
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Punishment and Inequality in America
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4.09 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice
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3.85 avg rating — 526 ratings
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The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
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4.21 avg rating — 759 ratings
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Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You
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4.21 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
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4.43 avg rating — 69 ratings
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No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
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4.18 avg rating — 963 ratings
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Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
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4.08 avg rating — 125 ratings
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The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
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4.06 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
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4.16 avg rating — 562 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 — 79,595 ratings
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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
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4.34 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
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4.10 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
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4.25 avg rating — 826 ratings
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Prison Nation
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4.01 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Civil Disobedience
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3.94 avg rating — 19,479 ratings
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Solitary: The Inside Story of Supermax Isolation and How We Can Abolish It
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3.70 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons
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4.20 avg rating — 131 ratings
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The Problem of Punishment
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3.73 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution
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4.11 avg rating — 7,820 ratings
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Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Ironies of Imprisonment
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings
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4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison
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4.52 avg rating — 1,217 ratings
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Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism
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3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Hard Time: Understanding and Reforming the Prison (Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series)
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3.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary
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4.37 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison
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4.26 avg rating — 665 ratings
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The Culture of Prison Violence
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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#JustJustice
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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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Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
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4.13 avg rating — 1,974 ratings
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About Prison
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3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Unequal under Law: Race in the War on Drugs
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4.08 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Women, Prison, and Crime
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3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge
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3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 244 ratings
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Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory
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4.23 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
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4.14 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court
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3.66 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Carceral Capitalism
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4.60 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
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Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
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4.41 avg rating — 1,166 ratings
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You Got Nothing Coming
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3.92 avg rating — 796 ratings
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The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner
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3.78 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Antonio's Will
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4.26 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Prison post: Letters of support for Peter Greste
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice
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4.04 avg rating — 1,858 ratings
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Get Free and Stay Free
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Crime, Aboriginality and the Decolonisation of Justice
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3.50 avg rating — 4 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 — 79,595 ratings
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Prisoner of Tehran: The End of Childhood in Iran
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4.21 avg rating — 14,458 ratings
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The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts
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4.08 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons
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4.08 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Arresting Incarceration: Pathways Out of Indigenous Imprisonment
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3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Hole in My Life
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3.77 avg rating — 8,046 ratings
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23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
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4.08 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Texas Jailhouse Music: A Prison Band History
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4.08 avg rating — 13 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 — 79,595 ratings
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Prison Writings in 20th-Century America
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4.03 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Prisoners as Citizens: Human Rights in Australian Prisons
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World
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3.86 avg rating — 566 ratings
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Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910
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4.15 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society
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3.79 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Consolation of Philosophy
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4.05 avg rating — 17,722 ratings
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Ain't Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
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4.21 avg rating — 957 ratings
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Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number
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3.92 avg rating — 635 ratings
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Committing Journalism: The Prison Writings of Red Hog
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4.07 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
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4.02 avg rating — 169 ratings
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