Justice Books
Great reads about prison and the criminal justice system.
MEMOIRS
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Assata: An Autobiography
by Assata Shakur |
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Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
by Susan Burton |
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Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side
by Rayya Elias |
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson |
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Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
by Andrea James |
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Upper Bunkies Unite: And Other Thoughts On the Politics of Mass Incarceration
by Shaka Senghor |
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Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison
by Deborah Jiang Stein |
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Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color — A Journey from Prison to Power
by Patrice Gaines |
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A Woman Doing Life: Notes from a Prison for Women
by Erin George |
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The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber
by Joe Loya |
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A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
by R. Dwayne Betts |
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore |
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
by Ted Conover |
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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
by Avi Steinberg |
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Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo |
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Larceny in My Blood: A Memoir of Heroin, Handcuffs, and Higher Education
by Matthew Parker |
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Cooked: My Journey from the Streets to the Stove
by Jeff Henderson |
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Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison
by T.J. Parsell |
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Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea’s Prisons
by Cullen Thomas |
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In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir
by Neil White |
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Low Bite
by Sin Soracco |
ANTHOLOGIES
BY JOURNALISTS AND ACADEMICS