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Prison Reform Books
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,741 ratings — published 2010
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.51 — 29,767 ratings — published 2003
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,667 ratings — published 1975
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.65 — 79,906 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.62 — 259,825 ratings — published 2014
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,907 ratings — published 2016
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,230 ratings — published 2007
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,738 ratings — published 2018
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.05 — 862 ratings — published 2017
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.43 — 120,653 ratings — published 2023
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.16 — 929 ratings — published 2021
Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.06 — 200 ratings — published 2015
Gone 'Til November: A Journal of Rikers Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 3.55 — 621 ratings — published 2012
Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 3.83 — 75 ratings — published 2000
Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.29 — 834 ratings — published
Rikers: An Oral History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.04 — 847 ratings — published 2023
American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 3.69 — 42 ratings — published
The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776–1941 (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.32 — 22 ratings — published 2007
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,235 ratings — published 2021
Pain and Retribution: A Short History of British Prisons 1066 to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 3.88 — 16 ratings — published 2014
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,666 ratings — published 2020
Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.36 — 783 ratings — published 2011
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,144 ratings — published 2020
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.58 — 630 ratings — published 2017
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,245 ratings — published 2017
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,079 ratings — published 2019
Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.15 — 186 ratings — published 2015
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,744 ratings — published 2017
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,045 ratings — published 2019
Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.28 — 450 ratings — published 2016
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,278 ratings — published 2015
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,581 ratings — published 1898
Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.26 — 668 ratings — published 2014
Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.47 — 318 ratings — published 2014
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.17 — 812 ratings — published 2016
Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.78 — 251 ratings — published
From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945 (Justice, Power, and Politics)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.20 — 35 ratings — published
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,599 ratings — published 2023
The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards (Racism in American Institutions)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.37 — 19 ratings — published 2016
The Constitution of the War on Drugs (Inalienable Rights)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.38 — 8 ratings — published
The Death Penalty: An Historical and Theological Survey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 1997
Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published
Cop Cop: Breaking the Fixed System of American Policing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.39 — 66 ratings — published
The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.61 — 1,843 ratings — published 2019
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.14 — 398 ratings — published 1999
Cruel and Unusual: The American Death Penalty and the Founders’ Eighth Amendment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published 2011
Just Revenge: Costs and Consequences of the Death Penalty (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.00 — 24 ratings — published 1997
What's Prison For?: Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.29 — 150 ratings — published 2022
The Death Penalty: An American History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 3.98 — 117 ratings — published 2002
The Hangman's Knot: Lynching, Legal Execution, And America's Struggle With The Death Penalty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.12 — 17 ratings — published 2003
“Today, the growing social movement contesting the supremacy of global capital is a movement that directly challenges the rule of the planet—its human, animal, and plant
populations, as well as its natural resources—by corporations that are primarily interested in the increased production and circulation of ever more profitable commodities. This is a
challenge to the supremacy of the commodity form, a rising resistance to the contemporary tendency to commodify
every aspect of planetary existence. The question we might consider is whether this new resistance to capitalist globalization should also incorporate resistance to the prison.”
― Are Prisons Obsolete?
populations, as well as its natural resources—by corporations that are primarily interested in the increased production and circulation of ever more profitable commodities. This is a
challenge to the supremacy of the commodity form, a rising resistance to the contemporary tendency to commodify
every aspect of planetary existence. The question we might consider is whether this new resistance to capitalist globalization should also incorporate resistance to the prison.”
― Are Prisons Obsolete?
“This may sound naive, but I didn't fully imagine that little girls grow up in this country with stories like yours. And that, I am sure, you are not the only one. That little girls grow up in tents and start smoking cigarettes by age eight. So seamlessly have we (those in power) written over stories and lives like yours that, to someone like me, it is very easy not to hear about lives like yours. Not to know or imagine they exist. Not to know that public policy is failing you. Not to know that the prison system is an impoverished and wholly inadequate response to your experience and that it, too, is failing you. Which means it's failing all of us.”
― I Have Waited for You: Letters from Prison
― I Have Waited for You: Letters from Prison
