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Prison Industrial Complex Books
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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,271 ratings — published 2003
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,348 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 — 1,150 ratings — published 2011
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,747 ratings — published 2005
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.23 — 37,835 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 — 37,007 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,432 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 — 1,289 ratings — published 2007
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,717 ratings — published 1987
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,964 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 4.63 — 6,104 ratings — published 2021
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 — 833 ratings — published 2011
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.42 — 314 ratings — published 2012
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,181 ratings — published 2020
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 — 7,191 ratings — published 2008
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,572 ratings — published 2017
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 — 1,186 ratings — published 2011
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.15 — 399 ratings — published 1999
Instead Of Prisons (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.44 — 39 ratings — published 2005
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,093 ratings — published 2016
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,836 ratings — published 2016
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.45 — 11,125 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 — 2,586 ratings — published 1995
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 3.72 — 207,232 ratings — published 2010
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (City Lights Open Media)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.47 — 836 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 — 146 ratings — published 2000
Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.35 — 422 ratings — published 2003
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.11 — 101,005 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 — 2,338 ratings — published 2021
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.46 — 233 ratings — published 2020
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,603 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 — 2,477 ratings — published 2019
The Panopticon Writings (Radical Thinkers)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 3.47 — 360 ratings — published 1791
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,058 ratings — published 2018
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 3.93 — 394,201 ratings — published 2018
Prison Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,289 ratings — published 1999
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.28 — 162 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 — 4,603 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 3.93 — 595 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 — 76 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 — 793 ratings — published 2011
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
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.11 — 140 ratings — published 2008
“However, to maintain a good credit rating during periods when revenue is lagging, municipalities must fuck over residents by implementing austerity measures such as firing public employees, cutting pension funds and health-care benefits, weakening the power of labor unions, cutting the education budget, and so forth.”
― Carceral Capitalism
― Carceral Capitalism
“The existing criminal justice model poses two main questions in the face of social harm: Who did it? How can we punish them? (And increasingly, how can we make money from it?). Creating safe and healthy communities requires a different set of questions: Who was harmed? How can we facilitate healing? How can we prevent such harm in the future? --S. Lamble”
― Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
― Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
