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Prisons Books
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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,580 ratings — published 2003
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,161 ratings — published 2010
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.49 — 366,991 ratings — published 1996
Different Seasons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.36 — 222,489 ratings — published 1982
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,307 ratings — published 1975
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.62 — 264,451 ratings — published 2014
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,133 ratings — published 2011
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,882 ratings — published 2018
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,259 ratings — published 2007
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 — 824 ratings — published 2016
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.72 — 206,489 ratings — published 2010
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,991 ratings — published 2016
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,918 ratings — published 1987
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,002,577 ratings — published 2010
Affinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.75 — 28,852 ratings — published 1999
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,928 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 — 293,308 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 — 1,163 ratings — published 2020
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.98 — 126,041 ratings — published 1962
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.29 — 161 ratings — published 2014
The Enchanted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,222 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 — 319 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 — 1,176 ratings — published 2011
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.45 — 210 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 — 2,580 ratings — published 1995
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,710 ratings — published 2005
Prison Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,272 ratings — published 1999
Blood in My Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,715 ratings — published 1972
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.11 — 95,865 ratings — published 2023
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,026 ratings — published 2021
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.93 — 388,121 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 — 36,295 ratings — published 2015
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,432 ratings — published 2018
تلك العتمة الباهرة (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.26 — 13,636 ratings — published 2001
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.48 — 65,890 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 — 830 ratings — published 2011
Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.65 — 62,547 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 — 2,690 ratings — published 2002
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,326 ratings — published 2010
The Real Cost of Prisons Comix (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.34 — 135 ratings — published 2008
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisons)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,466 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 4.21 — 61 ratings — published 2007
Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.29 — 884 ratings — published
What's Prison For?: Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.29 — 154 ratings — published 2022
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,129 ratings — published 2019
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prisons)
avg rating 4.63 — 6,024 ratings — published 2021
“One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents”
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