Penology
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Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn’t Commit
$18.99 Add to cart“Immensely compelling. … If it were fiction, no one would believe it. Kerry Cook’s account of his nightmare is fascinating.” -John Grisham
“Cook’s story is so gripping that only a heart of steel won’
- Author: Cook, Kerry Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0060574658
- Language: English
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Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants in America
$22.95 Add to cartThe United States has the most extensive immigration detention system in the world, expanding from a capacity of less than 5,000 detainees per day in the 1980s to 52,000 by 2019. While the most vocife… [more below]
- Author: Hiemstra, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745349463
- Language: English
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This Book Is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project
$26.99 Read more2024 Weatherford Award Winner, Nonfiction
This Book Is Free and Yours to Keep presents a captivating collection of letters and artwork by people in prison that highlights the crucial work done by the- Author: Banta, Connie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1959000357
- Language: English
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Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future
$27.99 Add to cartA powerful personal investigation of the insidious ways white supremacy compromises criminal justice reform, from the award-winning, formerly incarcerated activist and Soros Justice Fellow
Despite re
- Author: Deweaver, Emile Suotonye
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1620977885
- Language: English
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The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits
$20.99 Add to cartA meticulous expos? of who profits from incarceration, culminating in a compelling case for abolition
Based on years of research by the criminal justice organization Worth Rises–best known for campaig
- Author: Tylek, Bianca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1620978393
- Language: English
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All This Safety Is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders–Abolitionist Frameworks and Practices from Clinicians, Organizers,
$22.95 Add to cartA multi-discipline, multimedia guide to abolition through the lens of healthcare and medicine – featuring writings and artwork from 10+ incarcerated and post-detention activists
Exposing how marginali- Author: Mukerjee, Ronica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Jailer’s Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America
$28.95 Read moreHow does a Black man in Austin get sent to prison on a 70-year sentence for stealing a tuna sandwich, likely costing Texas taxpayers roughly a million dollars? In America, your liberty–or even your l… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Kevin B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1538192381
- Language: English
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Cuz: An American Tragedy
$15.95 Add to cartFirst appearing in The New Yorker, Danielle Allen’s Cuz announced the arrival of one of our most gifted literary memoirists. In this “compassionate retelling of an abjectly tragic story” (New York Tim… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494945
- Language: English
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Acting Out: How a Prison Theatre Workshop Broke Free
$27.95 Add to cartWhen Richard Hoehler first walked through the doors of a medium security prison in upstate New York, he assumed it would be a one-time thing. As a busy freelance writer, actor and teacher he had nonet
- Author: Hoehler, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1493085557
- Language: English
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The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
$18.99 Add to cart“Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism.”
–David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of… [more below]- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0358118220
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
$21.99 Add to cart“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time
Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn’s moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own relea
- Series: Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 #03
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0061253731
- Language: English
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Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America’s Most Shocking Bank Robbery
$9.99 Add to cartThe bizarre, true story of a robbery gone wrong and the explosive murder that shocked the nation–as seen on Netflix’s docuseries Evil Genius.
For the first time, two of the people who followed the st- Series: Berkley True Crime
- Author: Clark, Jerry
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0425250555
- Language: English
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Spirituality and Abolition
$20.00 Read moreAbolition can be a spiritual practice, a spiritual journey, and a spiritual commitment. What does abolition mean and how can we get there as a collective and improvisational project?
To posit the spiri
- Author: Crawley, Ashon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1942173725
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Defender: My Odyssey Through American Criminal Justice from Ted Bundy to the Kandahar Massacre
$16.99 Read moreIn the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne’s memoir, The Devil’s Defender, recounts his tortuous education … [more below]
- Author: Browne, John Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0912777672
- Language: English
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Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy, and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement
$35.95 Read moreBased on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in wh… [more below]
- Series: Critical Issues in Crime and Society
- Author: Hattery, Angela J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1978823789
- Language: English
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Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America’s Strangest Jail
$21.99 Add to cartRusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia’s notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the young Au
- Author: McFadden, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 371
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312330340
- Language: English
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El Color de la Justicia: La Nueva Segregación Racial En Estados Unidos
$31.15 Read moreEn este revolucionario trabajo que ha permanecido por m s de dos a os en la lista de los libros m s vendidos del New York Times, Michelle Alexander argumenta que “no hemos erradicado las castas racial… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 20 2017
- ISBN10: 1620972743
- Language: Spanish
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Real Cost of Prisons Comix
$16.95 Read moreOne out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going eve
- Author: Ahrens, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1604860340
- Language: English
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Abolition Feminisms Vol. 1: Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice
$22.95 Read moreAbolition Feminisms: Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice, offers wide-ranging feminist abolitionist methods for liberation forged in collectivity, radical care, and transformation.
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- Author: Bierria, Alisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1642596949
- Language: English
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States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America’s Punishment System
$23.00 Read moreA crucial book for our current moment, uncovering the history of mass incarceration in the United States and engaging with the major challenges of contemporary prison and police abolition activism.
I- Series: Field Notes
- Author: Shanahan, Jarrod
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1789146666
- Language: English
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