All Books

23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
Keramet Reiter
Themes: Prison and Society, Prison Experience, Prisoner Voices, Solitary Confinement, Prisoner Resistance
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis
Themes: Abolitionism, Transformative Justice, Prison Experience, Theory, Theorists
Arresting Citizenship
Amy E. Lerman, Vesla M. Weaver
Themes: Prison and Policing Reform, Policing and Law, Criminalization, New Jim Crow, Jail and Bail
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Heather Ann Thompson
Themes: Movements, Prison Experience, Prisoner Resistance, Race and Incarceration
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Dan Berger
Themes: Abolitionism, Transformative Justice, Prison Experience, Prisoner Voices, Race and Incarceration
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
Regina Kunzel
Themes: Prison and Society, Prison and Public Health, LGBTQ Incarceration
Death and Other Penalties
Geoffrey Adelsberg, Lisa Guenther, Scott Zeman
Themes: Prison and Society, Prison Experience, Prisoner Voices, Race and Incarceration, Immigrant Detention
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
Themes: Prison and Society, Policing and Law, Theory, Theorists
Down on Parchman Farm
William Banks Taylor
Themes: Black Lives Matter, Abolitionism, Private Prison Industry, New Jim Crow, Race and Incarceration
Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
Daniel LaChance
Themes: Prison and Society, Prisoner Voices, Policing and Law, Death Penalty, Criminalization