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Stone Hotel: Poems From Prison
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The Far Side of Evil (Elana, #2)
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Sylvia Engdahl (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 569 ratings
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The Devil's Butcher Shop: The New Mexico Prison Uprising
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4.14 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
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4.42 avg rating — 4,066 ratings
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I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup
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David Chura (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 74 ratings
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King Rat (Asian Saga, #4)
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Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 62,347 ratings
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Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
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High: Confessions of an International Drug Smuggler
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3.63 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Heir of Novron (The Riyria Revelations, #5-6)
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Michael J. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 54,605 ratings
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| 108 |
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The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
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4.61 avg rating — 1,838 ratings
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| 112 |
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De Profundis and Other Writings
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Panzram: A Journal of Murder
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| 114 |
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
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Shane Bauer (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 12,676 ratings
score: 189,
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A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
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3.89 avg rating — 14,816 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 116,359 ratings
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The Room with the Little Door
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Brethren
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 100,446 ratings
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| 119 |
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Grace After Midnight: A Memoir
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3.74 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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Writing My Wrongs
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I Am a Taxi (The Cocalero Novels, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 1,416 ratings
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Slaughter in Cell House 3: The Anatomy of a Riot
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I Love You Phillip Morris: A True Story of Life, Love, & Prison Breaks
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3.56 avg rating — 364 ratings
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1984. Фэрма
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4.30 avg rating — 213,990 ratings
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| 125 |
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
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4.51 avg rating — 29,534 ratings
score: 175,
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| 126 |
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This Is Paradise! My North Korean Childhood
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3.84 avg rating — 1,499 ratings
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| 127 |
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Anatomy of a False Confession: The Interrogation and Conviction of Brendan Dassey
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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| 127 |
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Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System
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4.77 avg rating — 651 ratings
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| 129 |
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In My Own Words
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Mickey Finn (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 172,
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| 129 |
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Get Free and Stay Free
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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| 131 |
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Journey into the Whirlwind
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4.40 avg rating — 4,756 ratings
score: 170,
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| 131 |
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A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars
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3.93 avg rating — 355 ratings
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| 133 |
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Devils Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
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Mara Leveritt (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 12,599 ratings
score: 167,
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| 133 |
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In Prison
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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| 135 |
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When She Woke
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Hillary Jordan (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 29,962 ratings
score: 166,
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From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter
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4.40 avg rating — 55 ratings
score: 165,
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| 137 |
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A Child Out of Alcatraz
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Tara Ison (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 155 ratings
score: 164,
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| 138 |
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Judy: A Dog In A Million
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4.37 avg rating — 1,265 ratings
score: 163,
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| 139 |
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Anthem
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3.61 avg rating — 165,829 ratings
score: 161,
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| 140 |
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Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners
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4.30 avg rating — 67 ratings
score: 158,
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| 140 |
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A Few Small Candles
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| 142 |
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I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!
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3.97 avg rating — 190 ratings
score: 157,
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| 143 |
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The Moor's Last Sigh
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3.94 avg rating — 14,623 ratings
score: 155,
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| 144 |
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Birdman of Alcatraz
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3.92 avg rating — 267 ratings
score: 154,
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| 145 |
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Maximum Insecurity: A Doctor in the Supermax
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William Wright (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
score: 153,
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| 146 |
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A Clockwork Orange
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score: 152,
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| 147 |
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Locked Up: Some Reflections on Prison
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4.15 avg rating — 39 ratings
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| 148 |
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The Silent Escape: Three Thousand Days in Romanian Prisons
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4.43 avg rating — 190 ratings
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| 149 |
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The House of Whispering Hate
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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| 150 |
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On the Inside
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Kim Cano (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 1,512 ratings
score: 148,
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| 151 |
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Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot, #32)
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3.86 avg rating — 38,782 ratings
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| 152 |
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Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
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3.82 avg rating — 116,049 ratings
score: 146,
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| 152 |
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The Dew Breaker
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3.81 avg rating — 8,329 ratings
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| 154 |
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Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)
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4.33 avg rating — 6,176 ratings
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| 155 |
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Dead Man's Ransom (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #9)
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4.07 avg rating — 7,076 ratings
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| 155 |
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Geronimo's Story of His Life
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3.90 avg rating — 2,714 ratings
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| 157 |
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Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned
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Alvin Townley (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 650 ratings
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| 158 |
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Let It Bleed (Inspector Rebus, #7)
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Ian Rankin (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 16,546 ratings
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| 159 |
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Let Tomorrow Come
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| 160 |
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Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right
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4.15 avg rating — 913 ratings
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Punishment and Democracy: Three Strikes and You're Out in California
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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| 162 |
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Hell (A Prison Diary, #1)
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Jeffrey Archer (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 6,535 ratings
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Kesey's Jail Journal: Cut the M************ Loose
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3.76 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Marie Antoinette. Bildnis eines mittleren Charakters
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4.39 avg rating — 9,323 ratings
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Tower of London
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Caught in the Struggle: The Real Rikers Island
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Revolutionary Suicide
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| 166 |
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Within the Whirlwind
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Cell 2455, Death Row: A Condemned Man's Own Story
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3.77 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Homeboy
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A Place to Stand
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Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement
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| 166 |
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The Water of Sunlight
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Eugenia O'Neal (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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| 166 |
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Please Don't Remove MarGreat's Glasses!
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Josh Baker (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 84 ratings
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In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times, and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World
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The Lizard Cage
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Karen Connelly (Goodreads Author)
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Falconer
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Acid
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Emma Pass (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 7,739 ratings
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Jailbait
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Walls, Wire, Bars and Souls
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| 166 |
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Agent out of Time (The Agents for Good, #3)
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4.36 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Perdition (Dred Chronicles, #1)
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Ann Aguirre (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 4,216 ratings
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A Parent's Message: Interactive Program Supporting Parent-Child Bond
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Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
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Victoria Law (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Ruby (Between the Cracks, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Prison Time
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Twisted Tears
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Voice of Innocence
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Lindsay Detwiler (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Je pleurais, vous n'écoutiez pas: USA : un enfant en prison
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Prison post: Letters of support for Peter Greste
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Penal Colony
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Richard Herley (Goodreads Author)
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Сад Гетсиманський
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My Daddy's In Jail
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S is for Serial
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The Prisoners
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Zek: An American Prison Story
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To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence
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Robert Uttaro (Goodreads Author)
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Burke - Now and Then
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Janet Philp (Goodreads Author)
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The Twelve Man Bilbo Choir
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Peter Staadecker (Goodreads Author)
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Apr 30, 2021 07:46PM
Karen Andrea Campbell Author of memoir "Falling" about her time in a full custody women's prison in Oregon. It's full of gritty details, like Orange is the New Black, about prison life but never loses focus on her family and their trust in her.Falling: Hard Lessons and the Redemption of the Woman Next Door
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