Penology
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The Dedicated Ex-Prisoner’s Guide for Getting Through the Halfway House: 10 Things to Do to Make Your Rehabilitative Stay Short, Productive, & Profita
$10.00 Add to cartEvery year, thousands of prisoners get released from jails and prisons into halfway houses, with a large percentage of them being sent back to lockup for violating rules or procedures. Halfway houses
- Author: Bovan, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: May 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0979295386
- Language: English
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Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
$39.95 Add to cartJournalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned i
- Author: Hoffman, Ethan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0295743980
- Language: English
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The Green Wall: The Story of a Brave Prison Guard’s Fight Against Corruption Inside the United States’ Largest Prison System
$14.95 Add to cartThe career of Donald “D.J.” Vodicka encompassed the rapid expansion of the prison system. For sixteen years, he was a prison guard in California’s highest security prisons, serving meals to gang leade… [more below]
- Author: Vodicka, D. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 19 2009
- ISBN10: 1440140596
- Language: English
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How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?: Voices of Indian Political Prisoners
$22.95 Read more‘Those who want to understand the nature of today’s political regime in India need to read this book’ Christophe Jaffrelot, Professor, King’s College London
‘A telling account of repression and resist
- Author: Vijayan, Suchitra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0745347983
- Language: English
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Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires
$18.00 Add to cartA dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires.
Shawna was overcome by the claustrophobia, the heat, the smoke, the fire, all just down the canyon and- Author: Lowe, Jaime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849217
- Language: English
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Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores
$21.99 Add to cartIVP Readers’ Choice Award
Outreach Magazine Resource of the YearThe United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world.
- Author: Gilliard, Dominique DuBois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0830845291
- Language: English
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Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt and Carcerality
$17.95 Add to cart“Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year.”
– Malcolm X (a former auto worker)Written in a lively, accessible fashion and drawing extensively on interviews with people who were
- Author: Livingston, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1682193497
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment in America
$21.99 Add to cartA FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
When Crime and Punishment in America was first published in 1998, the national incarceration rate had doubled in just over a decade, and yet the United States remaine- Author: Currie, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 1250024218
- Language: English
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The Hate Factory: A First-Hand Account of the 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico
$15.95 Add to cartThe terror lasted for thirty-six hours. When it was over, thirty-three inmates were dead, all at the hands of their fellow convicts. It was an outbreak of inmate violence unequaled in the annals of pr… [more below]
- Author: Hirliman, Georgelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: August 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0595366694
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Butcher Shop: The New Mexico Prison Uprising
$24.95 Add to cart“A modern horror story told in graphic detail. Morris’s meticulous documentation traces prison corruption . . . proving the tragedy could have been avoided. I recommend this book without reservation.”
- Author: Morris, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0826310621
- Language: English
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Love in the Time of Incarceration: Five Stories of Dating, Sex, and Marriage in America’s Prisons
$17.99 Add to cartThis evocative and gripping investigative look into romantic relationships between incarcerated people and their spouses on the outside “is impossible to put down” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).
What- Author: Greenwood, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1501158422
- Language: English
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Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement
$25.43 Add to cartNOW IN PAPERBACK The “elegant but harrowing” (San Francisco Chronicle) collection of writing from solitary confinement that lifts the veil on this widespread modern-day form of torture
On any given da- Author: Casella, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1620973510
- Language: English
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
$35.00 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… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0385517238
- Language: English
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Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison
$28.32 Add to cartThe nationally acclaimed “engrossing, disturbing, at times heartbreaking” (Van Jones) book that shines a harsh light on the abusive world of juvenile prisons, by the award-winning journalist
“Nell Bern
- Author: Bernstein, Nell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1620971313
- Language: English
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Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America’s Death Row
$24.95 Add to cartUpon receiving his execution date, one of the thousands of men living on death row in the United States had an epiphany: “All there ever is, is this moment. You, me, all of us, right here, right now, … [more below]
- Author: Harris, Lynden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1478014113
- Language: English
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Buddha Behind Bars – A Memoir
$19.94 Add to cartFaced with a two-year federal prison sentence far away from her home and family, Collin Ruiz took her Buddhist vows and dedicated her years of incarceration to developing her Buddhist practice. A wome
- Author: Ruiz, Collin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 18 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988050506
- Language: English
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The Big Book of Restorative Justice: Four Classic Justice & Peacebuilding Books in One Volume
$24.99 Add to cartFor the first time, the four most popular restorative justice books in the Justice & Peacebuilding series–The Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated, The Little Book of Victim Offend… [more below]
- Series: Justice and Peacebuilding
- Author: Zehr, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 168099056X
- Language: English
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Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners
$28.00 Add to cartDispatches from behind bars. Political prisoners speak out.
The official story is that the United States has no political prisoners. The reality is that there are hundreds of people rounded up, placed
- Author: Davidson, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1849355215
- Language: English
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Changing Lenses: Restorative Justice for Our Times
$28.99 Add to cartDoes the criminal justice system actually help victims and offenders? What does justice look like for those who have been harmed? For those who have done harm? Twenty-five years after it was first pub
- Author: Zehr, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0836199472
- Language: English
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Live from Death Row
$16.99 Add to cart“A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal must be heard.” –Alice Walker
“Resonates with the moral force of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter From Birmingham Ja
- Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0380727668
- Language: English
