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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 — 120,342 ratings — published 2010
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.50 — 31,897 ratings — published 2003
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.62 — 271,765 ratings — published 2014
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.93 — 399,752 ratings — published 2018
Milo Imagines the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.48 — 3,531 ratings — published 2021
Visiting Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,097 ratings — published 2001
From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington #1)
by (shelved 23 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,926 ratings — published 2020
My Brother Is Away (Library Binding)
by (shelved 21 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 462 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 — 13,179 ratings — published 2018
Punching the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.38 — 24,461 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 — 5,192 ratings — published 2016
Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,035 ratings — published 2013
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.24 — 38,326 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 16 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.65 — 87,661 ratings — published 2018
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.72 — 207,788 ratings — published 2010
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.42 — 149,014 ratings — published 2023
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,627 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 Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 324,843 ratings — published 2019
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.43 — 49,503 ratings — published 2018
Somebody's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.02 — 75,258 ratings — published 2021
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.10 — 105,179 ratings — published 2023
Love in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,919 ratings — published 2022
Fighting Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.63 — 14,387 ratings — published 2020
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,207 ratings — published 2019
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 — 506 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 — 1,106 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 — 1,197 ratings — published 2020
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,454 ratings — published 2018
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,304 ratings — published 2007
Harbor Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.19 — 13,682 ratings — published 2018
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.37 — 299,371 ratings — published 1965
How to Read a Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.20 — 128,123 ratings — published 2024
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.44 — 235 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 427,366 ratings — published 2016
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,152 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 — 7,374 ratings — published 2016
Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 862 ratings — published 2015
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,996 ratings — published 1970
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.98 — 128,818 ratings — published 1962
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 — 68,195 ratings — published 2022
Born Behind Bars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,611 ratings — published 2021
Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,719 ratings — published 2020
Felon: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,019 ratings — published 2019
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.26 — 89,225 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 — 26,043 ratings — published 2018
The 57 Bus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.08 — 45,600 ratings — published 2017
“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.
It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.”
― You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.”
― You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
“Today, it is predicted that nationwide one in three black males and one in six Hispanic males will be incarcerated in their lifetime. We have come to accept this as natural. But why doesn’t our discipleship inspire us to interrogate this belief?”
― Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores
― Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores
