Penology
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
$10.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. – LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUME
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 27, 2012
- ISBN10: 0345532015
- Language: English
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Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug m- Author: Kerman, Piper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0385523394
- Language: English
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The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice
$20.00 Add to cartA “mesmerizing” (The New York Times Book Review) true story about a shocking crime and a mysterious illness that will forever change your notions of how we punish and how we heal–an expansion on one … [more below]
- Author: Gilmer, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593355180
- Language: English
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If They Come in the Morning…: Voices of Resistance
$19.95 Add to cartWith race and policing once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power
One of America’s most historic political t- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Davis, Angela Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1784787698
- Language: English
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Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones
$19.00 Read moreA compelling, important addition to Hill Harper’s bestselling series, inspired by young inmates who write to him seeking guidance
After the publication of the bestselling Letters to a Young Brother, a- Author: Harper, Hill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1592408710
- Language: English
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
$15.95 Add to cartWith her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly… [more below]
- Series: Open Media
- Author: Davis, Angela Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1583225811
- Language: English
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A Murderer’s Guide to Cleaning: And Other Stories from My Life as a Probation Officer
$28.95 Read moreCould you sit across from a murderer, listen to their crimes, empathise and help them change? Welcome to the Probation Service.
Elizabeth Baxter has heard it all. Thieves, rapists, drug dealers, burgl- Author: Baxter, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1836431678
- Language: English
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Bookin’ in the Big House: What I Learned Leading a Women’s Prison Book Club
$27.95 Add to cartPat Cunningham Devoto had specific hopes for the women imprisoned at the Montgomery Women’s Facility who participated in her book club for the better part of seven years. She hoped the books they read
- Author: Devoto, Pat Cunningham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: March 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1588385671
- Language: English
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Couldn’t Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters
$19.99 Add to cart“Lying next to and rising out of despair, hope permeates the book. Why, in the end, does Lamb want us to care about 10 women in prison? Perhaps because in noticing the humanity of others, we become mo
- Author: Lamb, Wally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 006059537X
- Language: English
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Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration
$19.95 Read moreFor decades, Louisiana has had the highest incarceration rate in the United States. If it were a country, it would have the second-highest incarceration rate in the world. Far from a modern phenomenon… [more below]
- Author: Seiferth, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0917860942
- Language: English
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Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change
$19.99 Add to cartNYT EDITOR’S CHOICE – Peabody Award finalist – National Headliner Award winner – WASHINGTON POST BEST NONFICTION OF 2023 – Shortlisted for the 2024 Chicago Review of Books Award – FROM THE CRITICALLY
- Author: Austen, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1250758823
- Language: English
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The Price of Mercy: Unfair Trials, a Violent System, and a Public Defender’s Search for Justice in America
$32.00 Add to cartA former public defender takes us behind the closed doors of America’s criminal courts, revealing how the institutions that claim to protect us are doing the exact opposite–and offering a blueprint f… [more below]
- Author: Galvin Almanza, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0593799119
- Language: English
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Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy
$45.00 Add to cartAn original transatlantic history of the invention of the corrections profession and of ensuing debates about punishment’s purposes and prisoners’ rights.
Impermissible Punishments explores the history
- Author: Resnik, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: October 10 2025
- ISBN10: 022675474X
- Language: English
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The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence
$32.00 Add to cartFor readers of His Name Is George Floyd and Under the Skin
A landmark investigation into forensic medicine that exposes the systematic concealment of state-sanctioned violence through death investiga- Author: Keel, Terence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0807017515
- Language: English
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Framed (Inocentes: Incre?bles Casos de True Crime Y Condenas Injustas)
$19.95 Add to cartBESTSELLER #1 DEL NEW YORK TIMES – “El maestro del thriller legal” (Associated Press) se une al “padrino del movimiento de la inocencia” (Texas Monthly) para compartir diez desgarradoras historias ver… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 9798890983909
- Language: Spanish
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Eating Behind Bars: Ending the Hidden Punishment of Food in Prison
$20.99 Add to cartA vivid exploration of the food crisis affecting millions of incarcerated Americans, Eating Behind Bars sheds new light on the power–and peril–of what’s on our plates
“This eye-opening book will co- Author: Soble, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1620978407
- Language: English
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Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement
$22.95 Add to cartThe injustice, cruelty, and degradation that are so enmeshed within the US carceral system find their barbaric apogee in the practice of solitary confinement. Once judged by the US Supreme Court to b
- Author: Blackwell, Christopher William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745351271
- Language: English
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Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement
$39.95 Add to cartPeople organizing prison books programs have quietly gathered in basements, storage spaces, and the back rooms of secondhand bookstores for the last seventy years, reading letters written by incarcera
- Author: Marquis, Dave Mac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0820365874
- Language: English
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I’ll Fly Away
$18.99 Add to cart“Powerful . . . In I’ll Fly Away, the women have penned well-drawn evocative pieces about their experiences . . . . Healing is happening through writing.”–Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
The #1 New Yor
- Author: Lamb, Wally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0061626392
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us
$29.99 Add to cartIn 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a Brooklyn Street. Now he’s a journalist, working from behind bars, trying to make sense of it all.
The Tragedy of True Crime is a first-person journalistic acc- Author: Lennon, John J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1250858240
- Language: English
