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Incarceration Books
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,201 ratings — published 2010
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,189 ratings — published 2003
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.62 — 267,986 ratings — published 2014
Milo Imagines the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.48 — 3,515 ratings — published 2021
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.93 — 393,400 ratings — published 2018
Visiting Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,093 ratings — published 2001
From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington #1)
by (shelved 23 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,746 ratings — published 2020
My Brother Is Away (Library Binding)
by (shelved 21 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 457 ratings — published 2022
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,035 ratings — published 2018
Punching the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 24,253 ratings — published 2020
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.23 — 37,762 ratings — published 1975
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,080 ratings — published 2016
Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,034 ratings — published 2013
Missing Daddy (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 280 ratings — published 2019
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.65 — 85,252 ratings — published 2018
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.72 — 207,145 ratings — published 2010
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.43 — 138,860 ratings — published 2023
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,595 ratings — published 2017
Far Apart, Close in Heart: Being a Family when a Loved One is Incarcerated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.17 — 262 ratings — published 2017
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 317,475 ratings — published 2019
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.43 — 48,989 ratings — published 2018
Somebody's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.02 — 74,640 ratings — published 2021
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.11 — 100,382 ratings — published 2023
Love in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,880 ratings — published 2022
Fighting Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.63 — 14,188 ratings — published 2020
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,164 ratings — published 2019
See You Soon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.38 — 149 ratings — published
Dad Bakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.98 — 503 ratings — published 2021
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,079 ratings — published 2019
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,180 ratings — published 2020
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,445 ratings — published 2018
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,287 ratings — published 2007
Harbor Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.19 — 13,602 ratings — published 2018
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,034 ratings — published 1965
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 231 ratings — published 2020
Felon: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,945 ratings — published 2019
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 417,065 ratings — published 2016
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,148 ratings — published 2011
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,333 ratings — published 2016
Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 857 ratings — published 2015
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,961 ratings — published 1970
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.98 — 127,307 ratings — published 1962
How to Read a Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.21 — 105,640 ratings — published 2024
Place Hand Here (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.27 — 134 ratings — published
All My Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 66,693 ratings — published 2022
Born Behind Bars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,581 ratings — published 2021
Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,580 ratings — published 2020
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.26 — 86,193 ratings — published 1974
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,921 ratings — published 2018
The 57 Bus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,972 ratings — published 2017
“Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs.”
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“Today, it is predicted that nationwide one in three black males and one in six Hispanic males will be incarcerated in their lifetime. We have come to accept this as natural. But why doesn’t our discipleship inspire us to interrogate this belief?”
― Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores
― Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores
