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Prison Letters
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Ain't Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement
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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
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3.79 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System
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4.34 avg rating — 2,413 ratings
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Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants
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4.15 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison
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4.26 avg rating — 671 ratings
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The Second Chance Club: Hardship and Hope After Prison
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4.02 avg rating — 742 ratings
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Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
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4.23 avg rating — 12,762 ratings
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The Prison Torture in America: Shocking Tales from the Inside
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The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City
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4.15 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
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4.10 avg rating — 335 ratings
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The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women
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3.79 avg rating — 385 ratings
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No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison
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4.29 avg rating — 644 ratings
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Sinking the Sultana: A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey Home
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The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis
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The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
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4.21 avg rating — 962 ratings
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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4.45 avg rating — 4,917 ratings
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Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners
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4.30 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Stolen Years: Stories of the Wrongfully Imprisoned
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4.19 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Prison Island: A Graphic Memoir
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Just Walkin' in the Rain: The True Story of the Prisonaires: the Convict Pioneers of R & B and Rock & Roll
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4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison
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3.82 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of a Masterpiece
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3.90 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number
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In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey in Tibet, Capture by the Tibetan Authorities, Imprisonment, Torure, and Ultimate Release
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For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey Through a Chinese Prison
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Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
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4.14 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Gideon's Trumpet
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Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song"
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Fugitive Man: Hunting Violent Criminals for the FBI and Searching for Justice for the Innocent Convict
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Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series)
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3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts
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3.62 avg rating — 1,407 ratings
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Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
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4.30 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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4.38 avg rating — 7,112 ratings
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The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery
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4.26 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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4.45 avg rating — 5,590 ratings
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Summoned at Midnight: A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Fort Leavenworth
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The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution
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The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
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The Executioner's Song
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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
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The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
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He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty
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3.76 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us
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4.44 avg rating — 641 ratings
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
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4.15 avg rating — 9,068 ratings
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In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America
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Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul
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