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Justice Books

Great reads about prison and the criminal justice system.

MEMOIRS

	Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
	Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Susan Burton
	Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side by Rayya Elias
	Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
	Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison by Andrea James
	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
	A Woman Doing Life: Notes from a Prison for Women by Erin George
	The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber by Joe Loya
	A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison by R. Dwayne Betts
	The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
	Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
	Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg
	Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo
	Larceny in My Blood: A Memoir of Heroin, Handcuffs, and Higher Education by Matthew Parker
	Cooked: My Journey from the Streets to the Stove by Jeff Henderson
	Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison by T.J. Parsell
	Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea’s Prisons by Cullen Thomas
	In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir by Neil White
	Low Bite by Sin Soracco

ANTHOLOGIES

	Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons A Voice of Witness book edited by Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi
	Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States by Tina Reynolds, Rickie Solinger, Paula C. Johnson, Martha L. Raimon, Ruby Tapia, etc.
	Couldn’t Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution (Testimonies from our Imprisoned Sisters)
	I’ll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison Edited by Wally Lamb

BY JOURNALISTS AND ACADEMICS

	Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
	Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison by Nell Bernstein
	Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy
	Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform by John Pfaff
	The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
	Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett by Jennifer Gonnerman
	Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
	All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated by Nell Bernstein
	Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation by Beth E. Richie
	Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women In Prison by Paula Johnson
	In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women’s Prison by Barbara Owen
	Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System by Silja J.A. Talvi
	A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars by Cristina Rathbone
	Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire by Robert Perkinson

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