Prisoners - United States

  • Are Prisons Obsolete?

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    With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly… [more below]

    • Series: Open Media
    • Author: Davis, Angela Y.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: August 05 2003
    • ISBN10: 1583225811
    • Language: English
  • Beyond Bars: Rejoining Society After Prison

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    Can the common criminal get a fresh start

    An essential resource for former convicts and their families post-incarceration.

    The United States has the largest criminal justice system in the world, wit

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    • Author: Ross, Jeffrey Ian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: July 07 2009
    • ISBN10: 1592578519
    • Language: English
  • Real Cost of Prisons Comix

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    One 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

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    • Author: Ahrens, Lois
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: September 01 2008
    • ISBN10: 1604860340
    • Language: English
  • Caged

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    An evocative, affecting play on the horrors of mass incarceration written collaboratively by prisoners who have experienced it first-hand.

    • Author: Cooperative Theater Prison Jersey New
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 122
    • Publish Date: June 14 2022
    • ISBN10: 1642597090
    • Language: English
  • The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472

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    Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was riding a wave of success. The survivor of a difficult youth, he rose to become a top contender for the middleweight boxing crown. But his career crashed to a halt on May 2… [more below]

    • Author: Carter, Rubin Hurricane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: April 01 2011
    • ISBN10: 1569765677
    • Language: English
  • The Gardener of Alcatraz: A True Story

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    A prisoner gardens his way to freedom in this inspiring picture-book biography.

    When Elliott Michener was locked away in Alcatraz for counterfeiting, he was determined to defy the odds and bust out. B

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    • Author: Bland Smith, Emma
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: April 05 2022
    • ISBN10: 1623541603
    • Language: English
  • Life After Death

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    The New York Times bestselling memoir by Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three, who was falsely convicted of three murders and spent nearly eighteen years on Death Row.

    In 1993, teenagers Damien Ech

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    • Author: Echols, Damien
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: May 07 2013
    • ISBN10: 0142180289
    • Language: English
  • That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

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    OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK 2022

    “When I think about the fact that society, a nation, has sentenced me to death, all I can do is turn inside myself, to the place in my heart that wants so desperately to fee

    • Author: Masters, Jarvis Jay
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: September 13, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0061730483
    • Language: English
  • Inside: Life Behind Bars in America

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    Before 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

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    • Author: Santos, Michael G.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: June 26 2007
    • ISBN10: 0312343507
    • Language: English
  • Life in Prison

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    “The true stories I’ve written in this book are my living nightmares. My greatest hope is that the lessons the stories offer will help you make better choices than I did.” Stanley “Tookie” Williams, c

    • Author: Williams, Stanley
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: February 01, 2001
    • ISBN10: 1587170949
    • Language: English
  • Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison

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    When 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
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