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Prison Industrial Complex Books
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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,317 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 — 117,596 ratings — published 2010
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,130 ratings — published 2011
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,697 ratings — published 2005
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,097 ratings — published 1975
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,908 ratings — published 2015
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,248 ratings — published 2007
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.62 — 262,824 ratings — published 2014
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,532 ratings — published 1987
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,914 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 4.39 — 150 ratings — published 2008
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
by (shelved 7 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.24 — 831 ratings — published 2011
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 — 5,995 ratings — published 2021
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,131 ratings — published 2008
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,359 ratings — published 2017
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.42 — 311 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 4.41 — 1,160 ratings — published 2020
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 — 4,957 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 — 1,171 ratings — published 2011
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.45 — 210 ratings — published 2009
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.14 — 398 ratings — published 1999
Instead Of Prisons (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.45 — 38 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 — 12,833 ratings — published 2018
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,742 ratings — published 2016
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.44 — 10,837 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 — 2,578 ratings — published 1995
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 3.72 — 206,197 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 — 833 ratings — published 2009
The Prison-Industrial-Complex (Audio CD)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.65 — 144 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 — 421 ratings — published 2003
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.11 — 93,479 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 — 2,263 ratings — published 2021
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.48 — 219 ratings — published 2020
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,457 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 — 2,439 ratings — published 2019
The Panopticon Writings (Radical Thinkers)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 3.46 — 349 ratings — published 1791
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 3.93 — 386,353 ratings — published 2018
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,332 ratings — published 1971
Prison Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,262 ratings — published 1999
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.30 — 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 — 4,552 ratings — published 2017
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-industrial-complex)
avg rating 4.58 — 633 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 — 586 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 — 75 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 — 786 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 4.08 — 189 ratings — published 2000
“And maybe
there are small
cracks in our walls
and we start to see
a sliver of light
shine through
in each other”
― Punching the Air
there are small
cracks in our walls
and we start to see
a sliver of light
shine through
in each other”
― Punching the Air
“It's a free country. Inmates once bought this. Thus, they're inmates.”
― We have our difference in common 2.
― We have our difference in common 2.
