Penology
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Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison
$31.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The “entertaining [and] often-moving account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a notorious Nazi prison embodi… [more below]
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0593632079
- Language: English
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In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom
$28.99 Read more“If I do not write, who will? What I am living with here does not allow me to wait until others fully wake up to the serious harm prisons cause.”
Falsely convicted of murder and sentenced to life in p
- Author: Hamilton, Lacino
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1506488161
- Language: English
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah’s Book Club Selection)
$29.00 Read moreOprah’s Book Club Summer 2018 Selection
The Instant New York Times Bestseller A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Hinton, Anthony Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1250205794
- Language: English
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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
$32.00 Add to cartIn John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, “the master of the legal thriller” (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, “the godfather of the innocence movement” (Texas M… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0593866827
- Language: English
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The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
$30.00 Add to cartAn NBC Dateline producer’s cinematic account of his two-decade journey navigating the broken criminal justice system to help free six innocent men
In 2002, Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC’s Da- Author: Slepian, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 125089770X
- Language: English
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Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change
$20.00 Add to cart“You won’t find a better collection of diverse perspectives regarding how to respond to the crisis of mass incarceration–ranging from reform to abolition–than what’s offered here.” –Michelle Alexan
- Author: Dharia, Premal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0374614482
- Language: English
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The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration
$24.95 Add to cartMass incarceration is a lived, sensory experience.
The most eye-popping statistics alone cannot relate the enormity of its psychological and societal impacts. This concise, illustrated primer is a coll
- Author: Kilgore, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9798887440422
- Language: English
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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
$30.00 Add to cartIn John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, “the master of the legal thriller” (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, “the godfather of the innocence movement” (Texas M… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0385550448
- Language: English
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Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America’s Most Shocking Bank Robbery
$9.99 Read moreThe 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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The Incarceration Explosion: We Must Do Better
$28.99 Add to cartIn The Incarceration Explosion, Michael Wing and Victoria Junkins expose the harsh realities of America’s sprawling prison system. With millions incarcerated, the authors confront the dire consequence
- Author: Wing, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1959099957
- Language: English
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The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy
$32.00 Add to cartShortlisted for Columbia Journalism School’s J. Anthony Lukas Prize
A Publishers Lunch NonFiction Buzz Book
A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their com- Author: Pishko, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0593471318
- Language: English
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Beneath the Mountain: An Anti-Prison Reader
$24.95 Add to cartEssential radical texts by enslaved, jailed, and imprisoned Americans, edited by renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and activist-scholar Jennifer Black.
“Filled with insight and energy, this
- Series: Open Media
- Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0872869261
- Language: English
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Words Is a Powerful Thing: Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail
$24.99 Add to cartBrian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001. His last class at the jail for the foreseeable future was mid-March … [more below]
- Author: Daldorph, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0700632166
- Language: English
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
$21.99 Add to cart“Enthralling; it is well worth the trip.” —New York Journal of Books
Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York’s Blackwell’s Island, site of a lun… [more below]- Author: Horn, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1616209356
- Language: English
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Locked in: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-And How to Achieve Real Reform
$32.00 Read moreA groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates
In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most c- Author: Pfaff, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0465096913
- Language: English
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Abolition Feminisms Vol. 2: Feminist Ruptures Against the Carceral State
$22.95 Add to cartA collection of radical reconsiderations and creative critiques that aims to expose, disrupt, and uproot carcerality.
- Author: Bierria, Alisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1642598453
- Language: English
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Correctional
$26.95 Add to cartThe first time Ravi Shankar was arrested, he spoke out against racist policing on National Public Radio and successfully sued the city of New York. The second time, he was incarcerated when his promot… [more below]
- Author: Shankar, Ravi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0299335305
- Language: English
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Alcatraz: A History of the Penitentiary Years
$49.95 Add to cartALCATRAZ – the name alone said it all… It was meant to send a shudder down the spines of the nation’s most incorrigible criminals. It stripped Al Capone of his power. It tamed “Machine Gun” Kelly in
- Author: Esslinger, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 610
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0970461461
- Language: English
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Captive in Iran: A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph Amid the Horror of Tehran’s Brutal Evin Prison
$18.99 Add to cartMaryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Christian beliefs, but in three years, they’d covertly pu… [more below]
- Author: Rostampour, Maryam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1414371217
- Language: English
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Midnight Express
$15.99 Add to cartMidnight Express tells the gut-wrenching true story of a young man’s incarceration and escape from a Turkish prison. A classic story of survival and human endurance, told with humor, honesty, and hear… [more below]
- Author: Hayes, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: March 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0988981440
- Language: English
