Incarceration


The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Just Mercy
An American Marriage
Milo Imagines the World
Visiting Day
From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington #1)
My Brother Is Away
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Punching the Air
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Missing Daddy
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
My Mystical Path by Donna Shin-WardDelly Duck by Holly MarlowThe Scar by Charlotte MoundlicA Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret M. HolmesPearl's Marigolds For Grandpa by Jane Breskin Zalben
Bibliotherapy for Child Trauma
181 books — 24 voters

The Green Mile by Stephen  KingDifferent Seasons by Stephen  KingPapillon by Henri CharrièreThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Prison Books
528 books — 248 voters
The Midnight Library by Matt HaigWhat My Bones Know by Stephanie FooSeparate Things by Ashley Marie BerryMilk and honey by Rupi KaurFuriously Happy by Jenny  Lawson
Mental Health is Health!
142 books — 33 voters

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynEscape from Camp 14 by Blaine HardenCancer Ward by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan
The Gulag Medley
221 books — 52 voters
Colours of the Cage by Arun FerreiraFrom Bihar to Tihar by Kanhaiya KumarCaptive Imagination by Varavara RaoEveryday Life in a Prison by Mahuya BandyopadhyayFrom Phansi Yard by Sudha Bharadwaj
Voices from Prison – South Asia
68 books — 2 voters

Bryan Stevenson
We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity.
Bryan Stevenson

Stuart Turton
...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains. ...more
Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

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