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  • Life After Murder

    Five Men in Search of Redemption

    by Nancy Mullane ...
    Once a murderer, always a murderer? Or can a murderer be redeemed? Who do they really become after they have served decades in prison? What does it take for a killer to be accepted back into society? What is the chance that he will kill again?Award-winning journalist Nancy Mullane found herself facing these questions when she accepted an assignment to report on the exploding costs of incarceration ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Hot House

    Life Inside Leavenworth Prison

    by Pete Earley ...
    A stunning account of life behind bars at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, where the nation’s hardest criminals do hard time.“A page-turner, as compelling and evocative as the finest novel. The best book on prison I’ve ever read.”—Jonathan KellermanThe most dreaded facility in the prison system because of its fierce population, Leavenworth is governed by ruthless clans competing ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • We Do This 'Til We Free Us

    Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

    by Mariame Kaba ...
    Series Book 1 - Abolitionist Papers
    New York Times Bestseller“Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you’re going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you want to.”What if social ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sadopaideia (Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics)

    ‘Sadopaideia’ is a shocking, explicit, classic tale of Sado Masochism at the heart of English high society. Set in London and the Dorset coast, in an era of English history where corporal punishment was freely dispensed, the characters represent the core principles of disobedience, chastisement and compliance.How far is too far?Cecil Prendergast has a problem. He has been selected by Muriel ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • A Hidden History of the Tower of London

    England's Most Notorious Prisoners

    “With these incredible and often heartbreaking stories, John Paul Davis clearly demonstrates how the fortress acquired its sinister reputation.” —History . . . the Interesting Bits!Famed as the ultimate penalty for traitors, heretics and royalty alike, being sent to the Tower is known to have been experienced by no less than 8,000 unfortunate souls. Many of those who were imprisoned in the Tower ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Defending the Damned

    Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office

    by Kevin Davis ...
    Chicago was the nation's deadliest city in 2001, recording 666 homicides. For lawyers in the Cook County Public Defender's Office Murder Task Force, that meant a steady flow of new clients. Eight out of ten people arrested for murder in Chicago are represented by public defenders. They're assigned the most challenging and seemingly hopeless cases, yet they always fight to win.One of those lawyers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Savage Ridge

    A darkly atmospheric dual timeline crime thriller

    by Morgan Greene ...
    Small town justice comes with a price.'A richly drawn, haunting and unforgettable mystery' Chris Whitaker'An unusually intelligent, exceptionally involving thriller' A. J. Finn'A superb crime novel … wonderfully atmospheric and engrossing' Will DeanTen years ago, in the pine-shaded town of Savage Ridge, Nick, Emmy, and Pete murder their high school classma... ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • God of the Rodeo

    The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana's Angola Prison

    Never before had Daniel Bergner seen a spectacle as bizarre as the one he had come to watch that Sunday in October. Murderers, rapists, and armed robbers were competing in the annual rodeo at Angola, the grim maximum-security penitentiary in Louisiana. The convicts, sentenced to life without parole, were thrown, trampled, and gored by bucking bulls and broncos before thousands of cheering ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Texas Jurisprudence Study Guide

    This study guide is amazing! It is extremely concise and helped me tremendously in preparing for the jurisprudence exam. I solely used this guide in preparing for the exam and passed on my first attempt. I would definitely recommend this to everyone preparing for the jurisprudence exam. Steven Huang MD Neurosurgeon Great study prep! The material is more than adequate and very nicely organized. I ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A World Apart

    Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars

    “Life in a women’s prison is full of surprises,” writes Cristina Rathbone in her landmark account of life at MCI-Framingham. And so it is. After two intense court battles with prison officials, Rathbone gained unprecedented access to the otherwise invisible women of the oldest running women’s prison in America.The picture that emerges is both astounding and enraging. Women reveal the agonies of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Mr. Smith Goes to Prison

    What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America's Prison Crisis

    by Jeff Smith ...
    The fall from politico to prisoner isn't necessarily long, but the landing, as Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith learned, is a hard one.In 2009, Smith pleaded guilty to a seemingly minor charge of campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and one day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester. Mr. Smith Goes to Prison is the fish-out-of-water story of his time in the big house; of the people he met there ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Sun Does Shine

    How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Selection)

    Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionThe Instant New York Times Bestseller**A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.“An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.”—Archbishop Desmond Tutu**In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Breathing Fire

    Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California's Wildfires

    by Jaime Lowe ...
    A dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires.Shawna was overcome by the claustrophobia, the heat, the smoke, the fire, all just down the canyon and up the ravine. She was feeling the adrenaline, but also the terror of doing something for the first time. She knew how to run with a backpack; they had trained her physically. But that’s not training ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Framed

    Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

    In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the injustice faced by the victims of the United States criminal justice system.A fundamental principle of our legal system is a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Central Ohio's Historic Prisons

    Series series Images of America
    With the opening of the Ohio State Reformatory in 1896, the state legislature had put in place "the most complete prison system, in theory, which exists in the United States." The reformatory joined the Ohio Penitentiary and the Boys Industrial School, also central-Ohio institutions, to form the first instance of "graded prisons; with the reform farm on one side of the new prison, for juvenile ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abolition Feminisms Vol. 1

    Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice

    This groundbreaking double-volume engages the theme of abolition feminisms, a political tradition grounded in radical anti-violence organizing, Black feminist and feminist of color rebellion, survivor knowledge production, strategies devised inside and across prison walls, and a full, fierce refusal of race-gender pathology and punitive control. This analysis disrupts the politics of carceral ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

    Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

    In this collection of essays, interviews, and speeches, the renowned activist examines today’s issues—from Black Lives Matter to prison abolition and more.Activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis has been a tireless fighter against oppression for decades. Now, the iconic author of Women, Race, and Class offers her latest insights into the struggles against state violence and oppression throughout ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Solitary

    “An uncommonly powerful memoir about four decades in confinement . . . A profound book about friendship [and] solitary confinement in the United States.” —New York TimesFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardSolitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement—in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, twenty-three hours a day, in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Innocent Man

    Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

    by John Grisham ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES“Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment WeeklyIn the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Foundations of Crime Analysis

    Data, Analyses, and Mapping

    In recent years, the fields of crime analysis and environmental criminology have grown in prominence for their advancements made in understanding crime. This book offers a theoretical and methodological introduction to crime analysis, covering the main techniques used in the analysis of crime and the foundation of crime mapping. Coverage includes discussions of:The development of crime analysis ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Prisoners of the Castle

    An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

    by Ben Macintyre ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “entertaining [and] often-moving account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a notorious Nazi prison embodied the spirit of resistance against fascism, from the author of The Spy and the Traitor“Macintyre has a knack for finding the most fascinating story lines in history.”—David Grann, author of The Wager ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • By Heart

    Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives

    A two-person memoir that explores education, prison, possibility, and which children our world nurtures and which it shuns. At the books core are two stories that speak up for human imagination, spirit, and the power of art."A boy with no one to listen becomes a man in prison for life and discovers his mind can be free. A woman enters prison to teach and becomes his first listener. And so begins a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Down in the Chapel

    Religious Life in an American Prison

    by Joshua Dubler ...
    A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America—a state penitentiaryBaraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid—four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim—are serving life sentences at Pennsylvania's maximum-security Graterford Prison. All of them work in Graterford's chapel, a place that is at once a sanctuary for religious contemplation ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Question of Freedom

    A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison

    by Dwayne Betts ...
    A unique prison narrative that testifies to the power of books to transform a young man's lifeAt the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts-a good student from a lower- middle-class family-carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. In Virginia, carjacking is a "certifiable" offense, meaning that Betts would be treated as an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $4.99 USD