Penology
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Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison
$18.00 Add to cartNEW 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
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593136357
- Language: English
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Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice
$24.02 Add to cartRadical ideas for changing the justice system, rooted in the real-life experiences of those in overpoliced communities, from the acclaimed former federal prosecutor and author of Chokehold
Paul Butler
- Author: Butler, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1595585001
- Language: English
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Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary
$24.95 Add to cartA collection of intimate portraits told directly by people whose lives have been devastated by solitary confinement in America.
- Series: Voice of Witness
- Author: Pendergrass, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 02, 2018
- ISBN10: 1608469565
- Language: English
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Finding Joy on Death Row: Unexpected Lessons from Lives We Discarded
$17.95 Add to cartBased on the sermon series that garnered top honors from Yale Divinity School, Finding Joy on Death Row is the powerful story of a broken preacher’s transformative experience learning about joy from D
- Author: Williams, Dewey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1947297554
- Language: English
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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
$20.00 Read moreA brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance… [more below]
- Author: Henning, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593080904
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Restorative Justice
$8.99 Add to cartOver 150,000-copies sold Author Howard Zehr is the father of Restorative Justice and is known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming our understanding of justice.
Here Zehr proposes workab- Series: Justice and Peacebuilding
- Author: Zehr, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 1561488232
- Language: English
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club 2018 Selection.
Finalist, Dayton Peace Prize, 2019 “An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the
Winner of the 2019 Moore Prize- Author: Hinton, Anthony Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1250309476
- Language: English
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Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
$25.48 Add to cartWith a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration”
“But what does it mean–really–to celebrate reforms that convert your home i
- Author: Schenwar, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976978
- Language: English
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Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
$19.00 Add to cartPraise for Solitary:
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION
Named One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2019
Winner of the Stowe Prize- Author: Woodfox, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 03, 2019
- ISBN10: 0802148301
- Language: English
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This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life
$18.99 Read moreA “profound, sometimes hilarious, often heartbreaking” (The New York Times) view of prison life, as told by currently and formerly incarcerated people, from the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody… [more below]
- Author: Poor, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0593238885
- Language: English
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Doing Time Like a Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison
$20.00 Read moreWinner of the 2016 PEN First Amendment Award
Winner of the 2016 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence
Winner of the 2016 Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in… [more below]- Author: Kiriakou, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1947856324
- Language: English
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
$19.00 Add to cartA brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre.
In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 1995
- ISBN10: 0679752552
- Language: English
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Inside: Life Behind Bars in America
$24.00 Add to cartBefore Orange is the New Black, there was Inside.
American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million people each year. Despite these disturbing numbers, little is known about life inside beyond the- Author: Santos, Michael G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0312343507
- Language: English
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Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison
$21.99 Add to cartWhen seventeen-year-old T. J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugge
- Author: Parsell, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 31, 2007
- ISBN10: 0786720379
- Language: English
