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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,181 ratings — published 2003
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,186 ratings — published 2010
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as prison-system)
avg rating 3.72 — 207,142 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.62 — 267,943 ratings — published 2014
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,034 ratings — published 2018
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.17 — 838 ratings — published 2016
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.23 — 37,757 ratings — published 1975
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,744 ratings — published 2005
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.11 — 100,329 ratings — published 2023
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.65 — 85,225 ratings — published 2018
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.26 — 86,168 ratings — published 1974
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,180 ratings — published 2020
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,187 ratings — published 2008
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.63 — 6,092 ratings — published 2021
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.25 — 317,402 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-system)
avg rating 4.16 — 188 ratings — published 2015
Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,473 ratings — published 2019
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,080 ratings — published 2016
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.21 — 979 ratings — published 2017
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,164 ratings — published 2019
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,594 ratings — published 2017
Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine (Bitch Planet Collected Editions, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,085 ratings — published 2015
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,501 ratings — published 1999
Cell 2455, Death Row: A Condemned Man's Own Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.76 — 256 ratings — published 1954
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,077 ratings — published 2021
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,632 ratings — published 1987
Crime Control as Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.32 — 108 ratings — published 1993
A Burning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.72 — 54,915 ratings — published 2020
The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror (Annals of Communism Series)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.84 — 45 ratings — published 2004
Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,462 ratings — published 2018
I Am Alfonso Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,279 ratings — published 2017
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.91 — 334,106 ratings — published 2023
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.45 — 11,101 ratings — published 1974
Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.25 — 28 ratings — published
Pomegranate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,159 ratings — published 2023
I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.39 — 231 ratings — published 2021
Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,576 ratings — published 2020
Harley Quinn and The Joker: Sound Mind (Podcast)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.10 — 197 ratings — published
30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.92 — 237 ratings — published
That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,209 ratings — published 2009
Riots I Have Known (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.25 — 604 ratings — published 2019
Lady in the Lake (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.49 — 35,486 ratings — published 2019
Lost Children Archive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.80 — 25,961 ratings — published 2019
The Body in Question (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.59 — 12,720 ratings — published 2019
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.93 — 393,342 ratings — published 2018
The Autobiography of an Execution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,526 ratings — published 2010
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,606 ratings — published 2009
Among the Lowest of the Dead: Inside Death Row (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.04 — 114 ratings — published 1994
The Exceptional Negro: Racism, White Privilege and the Lie of Respectability Politics (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.43 — 23 ratings — published
Orbiting Jupiter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.23 — 60,000 ratings — published 2015
“Since most law-abiding citizens had no contact with the parole system, it was not a priority with the state legislatures. And since most of the state's prisoners were either poor or black, and unable to use the system to their advantage, it was easy to hit them with harsh sentences and keep them locked up. But for an inmate with a few connections and some cash, the parole system was a marvelous labyrinth of contradictory laws that allowed the Parole Board to pass out favors.”
― The Last Juror
― The Last Juror
“Racists, then, are indoctrinated citizens who think they are entitled and superior to all others, and therefore capable of committing racism and violence against them. I contend that indoctrinated individuals are prisoners to the walls built around them that keep them indoctrinated. Therefore, instead of seeing them as ‘enemies’, we need to apply the same methods of reform some thinkers have suggested to the prison system in that rather than being purely punitive, prisons should aspire to rehabilitate prisoners in such ways that they may return to society with better attitude, understanding, and healthier minds and bodies (all things lacking in racist people, if you think about it deeply). Even more important is to build a society in such a way that there would be little need to have prison systems in the first place.”
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