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Prison Abolition Books
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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.52 — 29,280 ratings — published 2003
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,879 ratings — published 2010
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,389 ratings — published 2018
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,186 ratings — published 1975
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,126 ratings — published 2011
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.64 — 5,872 ratings — published 2021
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,670 ratings — published 2005
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,150 ratings — published 2017
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,213 ratings — published 2007
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 34,611 ratings — published 2015
Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.39 — 150 ratings — published 2008
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,645 ratings — published 2020
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.59 — 30,091 ratings — published 1987
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,132 ratings — published 2020
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,323 ratings — published 2022
Blood in My Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,532 ratings — published 1972
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,868 ratings — published 1970
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
by (shelved 10 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.25 — 824 ratings — published 2011
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,197 ratings — published 2021
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,857 ratings — published 2016
Instead Of Prisons (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 38 ratings — published 2005
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,276 ratings — published 2016
Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 74 ratings — published 2014
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.16 — 896 ratings — published 2021
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.49 — 276 ratings — published
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.47 — 214 ratings — published 2020
Live from Death Row (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,566 ratings — published 1995
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.62 — 257,219 ratings — published 2014
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,312 ratings — published 1971
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,610 ratings — published 2018
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.35 — 20 ratings — published 2024
All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
by (shelved 6 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.39 — 92 ratings — published
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,162 ratings — published 2011
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.12 — 85,981 ratings — published 2023
An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.16 — 888 ratings — published 2022
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,997 ratings — published 2013
Abolishing Carceral Society (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.30 — 40 ratings — published
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.15 — 275 ratings — published 2016
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,037 ratings — published 2017
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.16 — 790 ratings — published 2016
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,497 ratings — published 2017
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.58 — 620 ratings — published 2017
The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings
by (shelved 5 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.42 — 31 ratings — published 2005
How Nonviolence Protects the State (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,399 ratings — published 2007
Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.20 — 103 ratings — published 2012
We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.24 — 457 ratings — published 2020
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,179 ratings — published 2022
How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.08 — 84 ratings — published 2024
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 4.78 — 157 ratings — published
The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Harm, Ending State Violence (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-abolition)
avg rating 3.66 — 360 ratings — published 2020
“If he's a poet, why's he in jail?" demanded a suspicious voice.
Madam Chairwoman shrugged velvet shoulders.
"Perhaps he writes free verse," she suggested cunningly.
A stir of approval answered her. Mice are all for people being free, so that they too can be freed form their eternal task of cheering prisoners--so that they can stay snug at home, nibbling the family cheese, instead of sleeping out in damp straw on a diet of stale bread.”
― The Rescuers
Madam Chairwoman shrugged velvet shoulders.
"Perhaps he writes free verse," she suggested cunningly.
A stir of approval answered her. Mice are all for people being free, so that they too can be freed form their eternal task of cheering prisoners--so that they can stay snug at home, nibbling the family cheese, instead of sleeping out in damp straw on a diet of stale bread.”
― The Rescuers
“And maybe
there are small
cracks in our walls
and we start to see
a sliver of light
shine through
in each other”
― Punching the Air
there are small
cracks in our walls
and we start to see
a sliver of light
shine through
in each other”
― Punching the Air
