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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.50 — 32,303 ratings — published 2003
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,929 ratings — published 2010
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.49 — 382,036 ratings — published 1996
Different Seasons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.36 — 227,195 ratings — published 1982
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,762 ratings — published 1975
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.62 — 274,031 ratings — published 2014
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,157 ratings — published 2011
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,318 ratings — published 2007
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,251 ratings — published 2018
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.17 — 859 ratings — published 2016
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.72 — 208,287 ratings — published 2010
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,747 ratings — published 1987
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,256 ratings — published 2016
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,022,040 ratings — published 2010
Affinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.75 — 29,547 ratings — published 1999
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,020 ratings — published 1970
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.14 — 400 ratings — published 1999
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.37 — 301,681 ratings — published 1965
The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings
by (shelved 6 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.42 — 31 ratings — published 2005
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,209 ratings — published 2020
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.27 — 166 ratings — published 2014
The Enchanted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,478 ratings — published 2014
Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.46 — 320 ratings — published 2014
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,193 ratings — published 2011
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.44 — 212 ratings — published 2009
Live from Death Row: A Radio Reporter's Impassioned Writings on Injustice, Racism, and Prison Brutalities (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,603 ratings — published 1995
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,800 ratings — published 2005
Prison Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,308 ratings — published 1999
Blood in My Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,906 ratings — published 1972
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.93 — 404,598 ratings — published 2018
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,921 ratings — published 2015
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,464 ratings — published 2018
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.98 — 129,749 ratings — published 1962
The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison – A Scholar's Encounters with Convicts, Dark Classics, and Unexpected Truths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.16 — 1,178 ratings — published 2016
تلك العتمة الباهرة (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.26 — 13,934 ratings — published 2001
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.47 — 72,758 ratings — published 1982
Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.21 — 103 ratings — published 2012
Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.31 — 32 ratings — published 2007
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.24 — 840 ratings — published 2011
Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.65 — 62,895 ratings — published 2007
Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the 'Bangkok Hilton' (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,749 ratings — published 2002
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,365 ratings — published 2010
The Real Cost of Prisons Comix (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.33 — 138 ratings — published 2008
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,545 ratings — published 1999
When the Prisoners Ran Walpole: A True Story in the Movement for Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.23 — 62 ratings — published 2007
How to Read a Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.19 — 139,934 ratings — published 2024
Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.28 — 977 ratings — published
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.10 — 107,975 ratings — published 2023
What's Prison For?: Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.31 — 159 ratings — published 2022
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,226 ratings — published 2019
“Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become the modern instrument of penality? Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?”
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“Prisoners - they have nothing to give, except suffering. Which is exactly what the guards are after: the pleasure of torment; the scratching of their itches for power”
― The Last Year of Confusion
― The Last Year of Confusion
