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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.50 — 31,956 ratings — published 2003
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,422 ratings — published 2010
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,152 ratings — published 2011
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,780 ratings — published 2005
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,381 ratings — published 1975
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,618 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.62 — 272,005 ratings — published 2014
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,305 ratings — published 2007
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,440 ratings — published 1987
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,002 ratings — published 1970
Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.37 — 150 ratings — published 2008
Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.37 — 83 ratings — published 2004
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.62 — 6,187 ratings — published 2021
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,197 ratings — published 2020
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
by (shelved 6 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.24 — 837 ratings — published 2011
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.41 — 314 ratings — published 2012
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,243 ratings — published 2008
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,701 ratings — published 2017
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,195 ratings — published 2016
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,189 ratings — published 2011
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.14 — 400 ratings — published 1999
Instead Of Prisons (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.44 — 39 ratings — published 2005
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,182 ratings — published 2018
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,884 ratings — published 2016
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.45 — 11,269 ratings — published 1974
Live from Death Row: A Radio Reporter's Impassioned Writings on Injustice, Racism, and Prison Brutalities (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,597 ratings — published 1995
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (City Lights Open Media)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.46 — 844 ratings — published 2009
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.44 — 212 ratings — published 2009
The Prison-Industrial-Complex (Audio CD)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.65 — 147 ratings — published 2000
Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.34 — 422 ratings — published 2003
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.10 — 105,501 ratings — published 2023
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,376 ratings — published 2021
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.44 — 235 ratings — published 2020
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,682 ratings — published 2022
Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,512 ratings — published 2019
The Panopticon Writings (Radical Thinkers)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 3.46 — 362 ratings — published 1791
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 3.93 — 400,152 ratings — published 2018
Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory (Studies in Crime and Justice)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.05 — 107 ratings — published 1990
Prison Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,304 ratings — published 1999
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.29 — 164 ratings — published 2014
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,629 ratings — published 2017
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 3.94 — 596 ratings — published 1979
Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 3.97 — 35 ratings — published 2005
Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.43 — 77 ratings — published 2014
Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.36 — 800 ratings — published 2011
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 3.72 — 207,827 ratings — published 2010
Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.21 — 103 ratings — published 2012
Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.06 — 109 ratings — published 2002
Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.09 — 191 ratings — published 2000
Compelled to Crime (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.28 — 58 ratings — published 1995
“The conversion of poverty into a personal moral failure was intimately tied to the construction of black Americans as disposable and subject to mass incarceration.”
― Carceral Capitalism
― Carceral Capitalism
“Imprisonment is increasingly used as a strategy of deflection of the underlying social problems—racism, poverty, unemployment, lack of education, and so on.”
― Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
― Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
