Prison


Orange Is the New Black
Straight Boy (Straight Guys, #0)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Hold (Hold, #1)
Freshman (Behind Bars, #1)
Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)
Protection
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The Green Mile
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 Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyEchoes of Honor by David  WeberBreakout by Richard StarkBorders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold
Prison Break
7 books — 1 voter

Tehran Moonlight by Azin SametipourRooftops of Tehran by Mahbod SerajiA Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina NayeriEqual of the Sun by Anita Amirrezvani乙嫁語り 7 [Otoyomegatari 7] by Kaoru Mori
Fictitious Iran
43 books — 23 voters
The Kelsey Outrage! by UnknownAlcatraz Screw by George H. GregoryRed Nosed Mike! by UnknownAlcatraz 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

Straight Boy by Alessandra HazardThe Freshman by Louise  CollinsBrute by Kim FieldingProtection by S.A. ReidPsychopath by Louise  Collins
Best Gay Prison Romances
86 books — 83 voters

Thomas  Harris
God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again. ...more
Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

Michelle Alexander
The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. People choose to commit crimes, and that's why they are locked up or locked out, we are told. This feature makes the politics of responsibility particularly tempting, as it appears the system can be avoided with good behavior. But herein lies the trap. All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our li ...more
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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