Prison Reform


The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Are Prisons Obsolete?
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Just Mercy
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail
Gone 'Til November: A Journal of Rikers Island
Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions
Jack Kerouac
In seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of greater strength for future atrocities glorious and otherwise.
Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

Aberjhani
It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

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