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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 — 116,822 ratings — published 2010
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.51 — 29,807 ratings — published 2003
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,712 ratings — published 1975
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.65 — 80,045 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.62 — 260,097 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 — 4,910 ratings — published 2016
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,233 ratings — published 2007
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,749 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 4.05 — 864 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 — 121,226 ratings — published 2023
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.16 — 935 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 — 200 ratings — published 2015
Gone 'Til November: A Journal of Rikers Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 3.55 — 621 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 3.83 — 75 ratings — published 2000
Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.29 — 836 ratings — published
Rikers: An Oral History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.04 — 848 ratings — published 2023
American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 3.69 — 42 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 4.32 — 22 ratings — published 2007
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,240 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 — 1,666 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 — 783 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 — 1,145 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 — 630 ratings — published 2017
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,255 ratings — published 2017
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,081 ratings — published 2019
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 — 186 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 — 1,745 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 — 1,046 ratings — published 2019
Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.28 — 450 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 — 35,343 ratings — published 2015
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,592 ratings — published 1898
Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.26 — 670 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 4.47 — 318 ratings — published 2014
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 — 814 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 4.79 — 252 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 — 7,640 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 4.38 — 8 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 4.38 — 68 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 — 1,844 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 — 398 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 — 150 ratings — published 2022
The Death Penalty: An American History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 3.98 — 117 ratings — published 2002
The Hangman's Knot: Lynching, Legal Execution, And America's Struggle With The Death Penalty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-reform)
avg rating 4.12 — 17 ratings — published 2003
“No one who worked in "Corrections" appeared to give any thought to the purpose of our being there, any more than a warehouse clerk would consider the meaning of a can of tomatoes, or try to help those tomatoes understand what the hell they were doing on the shelf.”
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