Prison


Orange Is the New Black
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Straight Boy (Straight Guys, #0)
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Hold (Hold, #1)
Freshman (Behind Bars, #1)
Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)
Protection
The Green Mile
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Hard Time
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Papillon
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
The Mars Room
The Kelsey Outrage! by Unknown .Alcatraz Screw by George H. GregoryRed Nosed Mike! by Unknown .Alcatraz Island Memoirs of a Rock Doc by Milton Daniel Beacher M. D.Tracy the Bandit by W.B. Hennessy
Olde Crimey
101 books — 2 voters

White Oleander by Janet FitchTable 21 by T. Rafael CiminoHarry Sue by Sue StauffacherAmber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart by Vera B. WilliamsDiary of a Freedom Writer by Darrius Garrett
Incarcerated Parents
83 books — 30 voters
Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  HoughGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Unsettling Memoirs & Biographies
532 books — 386 voters

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp SendkerAlexander's Infinity by Lidija StankovikjThe Piano Tuner by Daniel       MasonSaving Fish from Drowning by Amy TanThe Jewel Trader of Pegu by Jeffrey Hantover
Fictitious Burma
32 books — 16 voters
Hold by Zannie AdamsHard Time by Cara McKennaProtection by S.A. ReidCold by Brandon ShireUnPrison by Yamila Abraham
Prison Romance
159 books — 203 voters

Franz Kafka
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me. ...more
Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Richard Lovelace
Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Richard Lovelace, To Althea, from Prison

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