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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,826 ratings — published 2010
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.50 — 32,233 ratings — published 2003
Milo Imagines the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.48 — 3,565 ratings — published 2021
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.93 — 403,781 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.62 — 273,606 ratings — published 2014
Visiting Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,128 ratings — published 2001
From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington #1)
by (shelved 23 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,994 ratings — published 2020
My Brother Is Away (Library Binding)
by (shelved 21 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 475 ratings — published 2022
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,240 ratings — published 2018
Punching the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.38 — 24,584 ratings — published 2020
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,248 ratings — published 2016
Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,038 ratings — published 2013
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,668 ratings — published 1975
Missing Daddy (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 279 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 — 89,059 ratings — published 2018
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.72 — 208,194 ratings — published 2010
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,638 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 4.17 — 259 ratings — published 2017
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.42 — 154,726 ratings — published 2023
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.43 — 49,724 ratings — published 2018
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.10 — 107,454 ratings — published 2023
Somebody's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.02 — 75,525 ratings — published 2021
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 329,164 ratings — published 2019
Love in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,967 ratings — published 2022
Fighting Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.63 — 14,481 ratings — published 2020
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,222 ratings — published 2019
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,314 ratings — published 2007
See You Soon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 150 ratings — published
Dad Bakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.97 — 507 ratings — published 2021
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,118 ratings — published 2019
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,206 ratings — published 2020
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,464 ratings — published 2018
Harbor Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.19 — 13,716 ratings — published 2018
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.98 — 129,540 ratings — published 1962
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.37 — 301,378 ratings — published 1965
How to Read a Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.19 — 137,891 ratings — published 2024
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.44 — 237 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.46 — 431,933 ratings — published 2016
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,154 ratings — published 2011
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook: A Middle Grade Story about Found Family, Unbreakable Bonds, and a Fight for Justice for Children (Ages 8-12)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,392 ratings — published 2016
Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 867 ratings — published 2015
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,013 ratings — published 1970
Place Hand Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.27 — 134 ratings — published
All My Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 68,888 ratings — published 2022
Born Behind Bars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,627 ratings — published 2021
Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,780 ratings — published 2020
Felon: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,076 ratings — published 2019
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.26 — 90,542 ratings — published 1974
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.48 — 26,111 ratings — published 2018
The 57 Bus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.08 — 45,885 ratings — published 2017
“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the business interests that capitalize on prison construction—made imprisonment so profitable that millions of dollars were spent lobbying state legislators to keep expanding the use of incarceration to respond to just about any problem. Incarceration became the answer to everything—health care problems like drug addiction, poverty that had led someone to write a bad check, child behavioral disorders, managing the mentally disabled poor, even immigration issues generated responses from legislators that involved sending people to prison. Never before had so much lobbying money been spent to expand America’s prison population, block sentencing reforms, create new crime categories, and sustain the fear and anger that fuel mass incarceration than during the last twenty-five years in the United States.”
― Just Mercy
― Just Mercy
“Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due to changes in laws and policies, not changes in crime rates. Yet it has been changes in our laws—particularly the dramatic increases in the length of our prison sentences—that have been responsible for the growth of our prison system, not increases in crime.”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
