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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 — 120,360 ratings — published 2010
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.50 — 31,907 ratings — published 2003
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.62 — 271,795 ratings — published 2014
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.93 — 399,809 ratings — published 2018
Milo Imagines the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.48 — 3,532 ratings — published 2021
Visiting Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,097 ratings — published 2001
From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington #1)
by (shelved 23 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,927 ratings — published 2020
My Brother Is Away (Library Binding)
by (shelved 21 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 462 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 — 13,180 ratings — published 2018
Punching the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.38 — 24,463 ratings — published 2020
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,194 ratings — published 2016
Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,035 ratings — published 2013
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,335 ratings — published 1975
Missing Daddy (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 279 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 — 87,693 ratings — published 2018
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.72 — 207,798 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 4.42 — 149,115 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 — 4,627 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 — 259 ratings — published 2017
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 324,956 ratings — published 2019
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.43 — 49,507 ratings — published 2018
Somebody's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.02 — 75,266 ratings — published 2021
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.10 — 105,219 ratings — published 2023
Love in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,921 ratings — published 2022
Fighting Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.63 — 14,388 ratings — published 2020
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,208 ratings — published 2019
See You Soon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 150 ratings — published
Dad Bakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.97 — 506 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 — 1,106 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 — 1,197 ratings — published 2020
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,455 ratings — published 2018
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,304 ratings — published 2007
Harbor Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.19 — 13,682 ratings — published 2018
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.37 — 299,421 ratings — published 1965
How to Read a Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.20 — 128,358 ratings — published 2024
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.44 — 235 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 427,477 ratings — published 2016
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,152 ratings — published 2011
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook: A Middle Grade Story about Found Family, Unbreakable Bonds, and a Fight for Justice for Children (Ages 8-12)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,374 ratings — published 2016
Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 862 ratings — published 2015
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,998 ratings — published 1970
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.98 — 128,836 ratings — published 1962
Place Hand Here (Hardcover)
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 — 68,210 ratings — published 2022
Born Behind Bars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,611 ratings — published 2021
Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,720 ratings — published 2020
Felon: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,019 ratings — published 2019
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.26 — 89,255 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 — 26,044 ratings — published 2018
The 57 Bus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.08 — 45,609 ratings — published 2017
“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the business interests that capitalize on prison construction—made imprisonment so profitable that millions of dollars were spent lobbying state legislators to keep expanding the use of incarceration to respond to just about any problem. Incarceration became the answer to everything—health care problems like drug addiction, poverty that had led someone to write a bad check, child behavioral disorders, managing the mentally disabled poor, even immigration issues generated responses from legislators that involved sending people to prison. Never before had so much lobbying money been spent to expand America’s prison population, block sentencing reforms, create new crime categories, and sustain the fear and anger that fuel mass incarceration than during the last twenty-five years in the United States.”
― Just Mercy
― Just Mercy
“If an inmate swears at a guard, fights, or hides contraband like cigarettes or candy [Sheriff Arpaio has banned coffee, cigarettes, hot lunches, girlie mags & TV], she's kicked out of the tents and sent to lockdown--a tiny cell 10x12 feet that houses 4 women, instead of the 2 it was built for. There's no tv, no phone, & no a/c. Even though most of these women have drug problems, programs like NA or AA are considered 'privileges' forbidden to those locked down. The only way to get out of lockdown is to volunteer for the chain gang--the first & only female chain gang in the United States (as of Aug 1997). Volunteers sign a paper that says they know & accept the conditions on the chain--cleaning Phoenix streets, painting the center strip of miles of highway, & burying AZ's indigent. The accusation of 'cruel & unusual punishment' is quashed by the argument that the chain gang is purely voluntary. After all, if you prefer, you can spend the whole year in lockdown.”
― Too Much Time: Women in Prison
― Too Much Time: Women in Prison
