Criminal Justice
Death & Politics at Attica Alexander Street Press, Blue Sky… Read More »Criminal Justice
Prison Experience
This theme includes movements seeking to change current practices of policing and imprisonment. Users looking for materials on policy proposals, constitutional challenges, abolitionism, transformative justice, community-based safety, and grassroots movements will find it here. We welcome feedback on this organization during our beta period.
Subthemes
Aging in Prison
Prison Education
Prisoner Resistance
Prisoner Voices
Solitary Confinement
Youth Detention
Concrete and Sunshine
CreateSpace Nicole Cousino July 4, 2011 “Concrete and Sunshine” is… Read More »Concrete and Sunshine
Acres of Skin
Medical Abuse Behind Bars Films Media Group Allen M. Hornblum… Read More »Acres of Skin
We Need to Talk About an Injustice
TED Talks Bryan Stevenson March 1, 2012 In an engaging… Read More »We Need to Talk About an Injustice
Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
University of Chicago press Daniel LaChance November 1, 2016 In… Read More »Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
Death and Other Penalties
Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration Geoffrey Adelsberg Lisa… Read More »Death and Other Penalties
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Dan Berger In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a… Read More »Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Heather Ann Thompson On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners… Read More »Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical… Read More »Are Prisons Obsolete?
23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
Yale University Press Keramet Reiter Originally meant to be brief… Read More »23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement