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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.50 — 31,976 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 — 120,449 ratings — published 2010
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.49 — 378,892 ratings — published 1996
Different Seasons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.36 — 226,310 ratings — published 1982
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,404 ratings — published 1975
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.62 — 272,136 ratings — published 2014
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,153 ratings — published 2011
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,306 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 — 13,187 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 — 848 ratings — published 2016
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.72 — 207,855 ratings — published 2010
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,459 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 — 5,200 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 — 1,017,751 ratings — published 2010
Affinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.75 — 29,397 ratings — published 1999
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,001 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 — 299,779 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 — 1,198 ratings — published 2020
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.29 — 164 ratings — published 2014
The Enchanted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,422 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 4.47 — 315 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 — 1,189 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 — 2,597 ratings — published 1995
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,782 ratings — published 2005
Prison Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,304 ratings — published 1999
Blood in My Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,855 ratings — published 1972
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.93 — 400,376 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 — 37,637 ratings — published 2015
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,457 ratings — published 2018
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.98 — 128,977 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 — 1,172 ratings — published 2016
تلك العتمة الباهرة (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.26 — 13,869 ratings — published 2001
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.47 — 71,451 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 4.30 — 33 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 — 837 ratings — published 2011
Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.65 — 62,766 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 — 2,734 ratings — published 2002
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,351 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 — 4,536 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 4.20 — 130,412 ratings — published 2024
Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.28 — 961 ratings — published
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.10 — 105,656 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 4.30 — 157 ratings — published 2022
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,212 ratings — published 2019
“Lots of people are all cold and heartless. Who do you think works in a prison? Who do you think works on death row? It's a job.”
― The School for Good Mothers
― The School for Good Mothers
“Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.”
― Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
― Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
