Justice Books
Great reads about prison and the criminal justice system.
MEMOIRS
ANTHOLOGIES
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Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons A Voice of Witness book edited by Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi |
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Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States by Tina Reynolds, Rickie Solinger, Paula C. Johnson, Martha L. Raimon, Ruby Tapia, etc. |
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Couldn’t Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution (Testimonies from our Imprisoned Sisters) |
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I’ll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison Edited by Wally Lamb |
BY JOURNALISTS AND ACADEMICS
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander |
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Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett by Jennifer Gonnerman |
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc |
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All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated by Nell Bernstein |
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Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation by Beth E. Richie |
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Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women In Prison by Paula Johnson |
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In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women’s Prison by Barbara Owen |
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Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System by Silja J.A. Talvi |
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A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars by Cristina Rathbone |
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Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire by Robert Perkinson |