Penology
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{#289-128}: Poems
$19.95 Add to cart“Forgive state poet #289-128 / for not scribbling illusions / of trickery as if timeless hell / could be captured by stanzas / alliteration or slant rhyme,” remarks the speaker, Maryland Department of
- Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose
- Author: Horton, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0813179882
- Language: English
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
$22.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – The definitive history of the infamous 1971 Attica Prison uprising, the state’s violent response, and the victim’s decades-long quest for justice. – Thompson served as the Hist… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Heather Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 1400078245
- Language: English
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Worse Than Slavery
$20.00 Add to cartIn this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era–and … [more below]
- Author: Oshinsky, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0684830957
- Language: English
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Prisons Make Us Safer: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
$18.00 Add to cartAn accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals.
The United States incarcerates more of its- Series: Myths Made in America
- Author: Law, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0807029521
- Language: English
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In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Redemption
$19.00 Add to cartWilbert Rideau, an award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in prison, delivers a remarkable memoir of crime, punishment, and ultimate triumph.
After killing a bank teller in a moment of p- Author: Rideau, Wilbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0307277305
- Language: English
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Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920
$34.98 Read moreA groundbreaking collective work of history by a group of incarcerated scholars that resurrects the lost truth about the first women’s prison
What if prisoners were to write the history of their own p- Author: The Indiana Women’s Prison History Proje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1620975394
- Language: English
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The Little School
$18.95 Add to cartOne of Argentina’s 30,000 “disappeared”, Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were… [more below]
- Author: Partnoy, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 03 1998
- ISBN10: 1573440299
- Language: English
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Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
$21.99 Read moreA “persuasive and essential” (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller’s “stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation’s carc
- Author: Miller, Reuben Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0316451487
- Language: English
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Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
$39.95 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
A Smithsonian Book of the Year
A New York Review of Books “Best of 2020” Selection
A New York Times Best Art Book of the Year
An Art Newspaper Book of the- Author: Fleetwood, Nicole R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 067491922X
- Language: English
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New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner
$20.00 Read moreJoy James has a long, well regarded career marked by praise from author/activists including Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelly, Howard Zinn, Manning Marable and reviews in trade, academic, and popular pre… [more below]
- Author: James, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1942173741
- Language: English
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
$18.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0385340915
- Language: English
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Rikers: An Oral History
$28.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – A shocking, groundbreaking oral history of the infamous Rikers jail complex and an unflinching portrait of injustice and resilience told by the people whose lives have
- Author: Rayman, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593134214
- Language: English
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The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
$21.99 Add to cartThis singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century.
The Women’s House of Dete- Author: Ryan, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1645036650
- Language: English
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We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
$16.95 Add to cartA reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba.
- Series: Abolitionist Papers #1
- Author: Kaba, Mariame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 164259525X
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
$22.99 Add to cart“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time
Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn’s entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain fo
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: August 07, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253723
- Language: English
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Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home
$26.99 Read more95 percent of the millions of American men and women who go to prison eventually get out. What happens to them?
There’s Arnoldo, who came of age inside a maximum security penitentiary, now free after n
- Author: Kessler, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1728236517
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
$22.99 Add to cart“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time
Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn’s chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureauc
- Series: Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 #01
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 07, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253715
- Language: English
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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
$21.00 Add to cartTHE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL.
In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remar- Author: Harrington, Joel F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 31, 2013
- ISBN10: 1250043611
- Language: English
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Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom
$34.98 Read moreWith a foreword by Bruce Western
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR
The most comprehensive critique of probation and parole–and a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing both–f- Author: Schiraldi, Vincent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1620978172
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement
$19.99 Add to cartThe official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY” —Time
The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of fo
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 07, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253804
- Language: English
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