Justice Books

Great reads about prison and the criminal justice system.

MEMOIRS

Upper Bunkies Unite: And Other Thoughts On the Politics of Mass Incarceration by Shaka Senghor

Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison by Deborah Jiang Stein

Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color — A Journey from Prison to Power by Patrice Gaines

Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color — A Journey from Prison to Power by Patrice Gaines
Piper Kerman

Author of 'Orange is the New Black' and justice reform activist

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JUSTICE REFORM LINKS

Click on a link below to learn more about the organizations that are helping to make our justice system work properly for all of us.

• Women’s Prison Association

• Nation Inside

• Families Against Mandatory Minimums

• Voice of Witness

• PEN American Center Prison Writing Program

• Pew Charitable Trusts’ Public Safety Performance Project

• Evidence-Based Public Policy Options to Reduce Future Prison Construction, Criminal Justice Costs, and Crime Rates

• Innocence Project

• Reclaiming Futures

• Restorative Justice Online

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