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Prison Reform Books
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,896 ratings — published 2010
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,457 ratings — published 2003
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.65 — 82,431 ratings — published 2018
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,209 ratings — published 1975
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.62 — 263,649 ratings — published 2014
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,975 ratings — published 2016
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,258 ratings — published 2007
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,119 ratings — published 2019
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,858 ratings — published 2018
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.04 — 875 ratings — published 2017
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.43 — 129,726 ratings — published 2023
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,012 ratings — published 2021
Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.06 — 201 ratings — published 2015
Gone 'Til November: A Journal of Rikers Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 3.56 — 630 ratings — published 2012
Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 3.82 — 76 ratings — published 2000
Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.28 — 879 ratings — published
Rikers: An Oral History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.03 — 862 ratings — published 2023
American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 3.67 — 43 ratings — published
The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776–1941 (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.26 — 23 ratings — published 2007
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,282 ratings — published 2021
Pain and Retribution: A Short History of British Prisons 1066 to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 3.88 — 16 ratings — published 2014
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,676 ratings — published 2020
Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.36 — 786 ratings — published 2011
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,160 ratings — published 2020
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.58 — 634 ratings — published 2017
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,384 ratings — published 2017
Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.15 — 187 ratings — published 2015
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,766 ratings — published 2017
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,059 ratings — published 2019
Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.27 — 456 ratings — published 2016
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,116 ratings — published 2015
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,724 ratings — published 1898
Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.26 — 681 ratings — published 2014
Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.46 — 319 ratings — published 2014
Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy, and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.50 — 8 ratings — published
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.17 — 824 ratings — published 2016
Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.78 — 270 ratings — published
From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945 (Justice, Power, and Politics)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.20 — 35 ratings — published
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,103 ratings — published 2023
The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards (Racism in American Institutions)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.37 — 19 ratings — published 2016
The Constitution of the War on Drugs (Inalienable Rights)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published
The Death Penalty: An Historical and Theological Survey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 1997
Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published
Cop Cop: Breaking the Fixed System of American Policing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.31 — 83 ratings — published
The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.61 — 1,869 ratings — published 2019
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.14 — 399 ratings — published 1999
Cruel and Unusual: The American Death Penalty and the Founders’ Eighth Amendment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published 2011
Just Revenge: Costs and Consequences of the Death Penalty (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.00 — 24 ratings — published 1997
What's Prison For?: Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.29 — 153 ratings — published 2022
The Death Penalty: An American History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 3.98 — 118 ratings — published 2002
“Every society has the criminals that it deserves.”
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“In Waquant's words: "Racial division was a consequence, not a precondition of slavery, but once it was instituted it became detached from its initial function and acquired a social potency all its own." After the death of slavery, the idea of race lived on/”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
