Prisons


Are Prisons Obsolete?
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Green Mile
Different Seasons
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Just Mercy
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Orange Is the New Black
Assata: An Autobiography
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Affinity
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan PoeThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Valley of Unknowing by Philip Sington
Walls
275 books — 42 voters
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David ThoreauThe Long Loneliness by Dorothy DayLetter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.Non-Violent Resistance by Mahatma GandhiAcross That Bridge by John             Lewis
Civil Disobedients
81 books — 22 voters


Angela Y. Davis
[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

If someone asked me today, "What do prisons produce?" I would say, "They produce a great deal of paranoia. ...more
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On the publication of "Blackbirds in the Pomegranate Tree: Stories from Ixcotel State Prison" my…more
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