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Prison System Books
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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.52 — 29,336 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 — 115,955 ratings — published 2010
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as prison-system)
avg rating 3.72 — 205,375 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.62 — 257,454 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 — 12,627 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 — 792 ratings — published 2016
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,233 ratings — published 1975
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,671 ratings — published 2005
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.12 — 86,322 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 — 77,877 ratings — published 2018
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,132 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 — 7,071 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 4.64 — 5,880 ratings — published 2021
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.25 — 299,376 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 4.14 — 185 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 — 2,395 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 — 4,864 ratings — published 2016
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,046 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 — 4,506 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 — 24,844 ratings — published 2015
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-system)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,413 ratings — published 1999
I Am Alfonso Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,231 ratings — published 2017
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.92 — 305,813 ratings — published 2023
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.44 — 10,630 ratings — published 1974
Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.20 — 20 ratings — published
Pomegranate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,783 ratings — published 2023
I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.37 — 207 ratings — published 2021
Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,053 ratings — published 2020
Harley Quinn and The Joker: Sound Mind (Podcast)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.11 — 187 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 3.91 — 235 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 — 5,730 ratings — published 2009
Riots I Have Known (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.25 — 588 ratings — published 2019
Lady in the Lake (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.50 — 34,463 ratings — published 2019
Lost Children Archive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.80 — 25,114 ratings — published 2019
The Body in Question (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.59 — 12,115 ratings — published 2019
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.93 — 382,113 ratings — published 2018
The Autobiography of an Execution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,507 ratings — published 2010
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,308 ratings — published 2009
Among the Lowest of the Dead: Inside Death Row (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.05 — 113 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 4.41 — 22 ratings — published
Orbiting Jupiter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,723 ratings — published 2015
Peas and Carrots (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.55 — 367 ratings — published 2016
One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.02 — 37,441 ratings — published 2010
Miracle's Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,836 ratings — published 2000
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.29 — 49,484 ratings — published 2015
Efrén Divided (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,964 ratings — published 2020
From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington #1)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,192 ratings — published 2020
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,396 ratings — published 2018
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 4.58 — 249,027 ratings — published 1980
Stealing Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-system)
avg rating 3.98 — 977 ratings — published 2021
“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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“Michigan is still home to one of the most extreme human containment systems in the United States. Its prison population has increased by 450 percent since 1973, and the state maintains a higher rate of imprisonment than most countries. African Americans are the largest incarcerated group by far in Michigan, with a total population of 14 percent and a penal population of 49 percent. Latinos and Native Americans are incarcerated in Michigan at rates equal to their population percentage. However, white Michiganders, who make up 77 percent of the general population, are underrepresented in the prison population at 46 percent. Racialized sentencing policies have much to do with these statistics. Historians Heather Ann Thompson and Matthew Lassiter, the founding codirectors of the Carceral State Project at the University of Michigan, point to "draconian" state legislation that by the 1990s included the infamous "lifer laws," which exacted life terms for narcotics possessions of over 650 grams and extinguished the opportunity for parole. As men and women were thrown behind bars for nonviolent offenses in the 1980s through the early 2000s, Detroit neighborhoods were gutted, children were orphaned, and voter rolls were depleted.”
― Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
― Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
