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The Green Mile
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Different Seasons
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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In Cold Blood
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
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Les Misérables
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The Stranger
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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Great Expectations
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Holes (Holes, #1)
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Louis Sachar (Goodreads Author)
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The Animal Factory
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The Trial
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Alias Grace
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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Orange Is the New Black
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Piper Kerman (Goodreads Author)
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The Reader
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Sleepers
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30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor
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Karen Gedney (Goodreads Author)
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Shantaram
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Gregory David Roberts (Goodreads Author)
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David Copperfield
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Schindler’s List
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The Executioner's Song
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Little Dorrit
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Crime and Punishment
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Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
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Rusty Young (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 30,302 ratings
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Midnight Express
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Billy Hayes (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 4,669 ratings
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 83,723 ratings
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Just Mercy
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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Heather Ann Thompson (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 4,889 ratings
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The Bridge Over the River Kwai
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
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Affinity
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Andersonville
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Not Without My Daughter
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The Pickwick Papers
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Red Dragon
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4.07 avg rating — 369,860 ratings
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The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
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Assata: An Autobiography
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Prison Writings
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4.25 avg rating — 2,243 ratings
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In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
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Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison
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Razor Wire Wilderness
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Stephanie Dickinson (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Poison Study (Study, #1)
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Maria V. Snyder (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 175,242 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
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Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
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Letter from the Birmingham Jail
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Empire of the Sun
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The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
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Blaine Harden (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 71,554 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
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De Profundis
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Cool Hand Luke
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Live from Death Row
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Spandau: The Secret Diaries
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Hades' Disciples (The Legacy of the Gods, #2)
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Michael West (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Laughing All the Way to the Bank (Robbery): My Education at Con College
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The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
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A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 823,713 ratings
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The Prisoner's Wife: A Memoir
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White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief
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Fellside
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M.R. Carey (Goodreads Author)
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Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 60,929 ratings
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Morgan's Run
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Letters from the Inside
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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Do They Hear You When You Cry
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The House of the Dead
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Resurrection
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Letters and Papers from Prison
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Prisoner of Tehran
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Marina Nemat (Goodreads Author)
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Faust, Part One
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Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
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Antigone
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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
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Avi Steinberg (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 4,317 ratings
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Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
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The Consolation of Philosophy
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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Gideon's Trumpet
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Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #22)
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Silence
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On the Yard
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The Prisoner of Zenda (The Ruritania Trilogy, #2)
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Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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Slammerkin
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Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the 'Bangkok Hilton'
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Prisoners, families, dolls and judgements
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Lowdown
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Green River Rising
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Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
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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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