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Incarceration Books
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,169 ratings — published 2010
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,010 ratings — published 2003
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.62 — 261,343 ratings — published 2014
Milo Imagines the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.48 — 3,470 ratings — published 2021
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.93 — 385,215 ratings — published 2018
Visiting Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,062 ratings — published 2001
From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington #1)
by (shelved 22 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,403 ratings — published 2020
My Brother Is Away (Library Binding)
by (shelved 21 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 431 ratings — published 2022
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,783 ratings — published 2018
Punching the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 23,870 ratings — published 2020
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,897 ratings — published 1975
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,931 ratings — published 2016
Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,019 ratings — published 2013
Missing Daddy (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.26 — 277 ratings — published 2019
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.65 — 80,822 ratings — published 2018
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.43 — 124,198 ratings — published 2023
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.44 — 47,949 ratings — published 2018
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,541 ratings — published 2017
Far Apart, Close in Heart: Being a Family when a Loved One is Incarcerated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.15 — 255 ratings — published 2017
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.72 — 205,970 ratings — published 2010
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 307,140 ratings — published 2019
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.11 — 91,379 ratings — published 2023
Love in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,783 ratings — published 2022
Somebody's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.02 — 73,451 ratings — published 2021
Fighting Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.63 — 13,860 ratings — published 2020
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,098 ratings — published 2019
See You Soon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 144 ratings — published
Dad Bakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.98 — 496 ratings — published 2021
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,054 ratings — published 2019
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,149 ratings — published 2020
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,410 ratings — published 2018
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,237 ratings — published 2007
Harbor Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.20 — 13,447 ratings — published 2018
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.37 — 291,038 ratings — published 1965
Felon: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,884 ratings — published 2019
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 402,201 ratings — published 2016
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,129 ratings — published 2011
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,288 ratings — published 2016
Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 829 ratings — published 2015
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,900 ratings — published 1970
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.98 — 124,997 ratings — published 1962
Place Hand Here (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.26 — 130 ratings — published
All My Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.48 — 64,116 ratings — published 2022
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.48 — 220 ratings — published 2020
Born Behind Bars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,521 ratings — published 2021
Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,246 ratings — published 2020
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.27 — 81,544 ratings — published 1974
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,644 ratings — published 2018
The 57 Bus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,847 ratings — published 2017
Allegedly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.02 — 80,643 ratings — published 2017
“Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs for 15 minutes.”
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“If an inmate swears at a guard, fights, or hides contraband like cigarettes or candy [Sheriff Arpaio has banned coffee, cigarettes, hot lunches, girlie mags & TV], she's kicked out of the tents and sent to lockdown--a tiny cell 10x12 feet that houses 4 women, instead of the 2 it was built for. There's no tv, no phone, & no a/c. Even though most of these women have drug problems, programs like NA or AA are considered 'privileges' forbidden to those locked down. The only way to get out of lockdown is to volunteer for the chain gang--the first & only female chain gang in the United States (as of Aug 1997). Volunteers sign a paper that says they know & accept the conditions on the chain--cleaning Phoenix streets, painting the center strip of miles of highway, & burying AZ's indigent. The accusation of 'cruel & unusual punishment' is quashed by the argument that the chain gang is purely voluntary. After all, if you prefer, you can spend the whole year in lockdown.”
― Too Much Time: Women in Prison
― Too Much Time: Women in Prison
