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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Shakespeare Saved My Life

    by Laura Bates ...
    A female professor, a super maximum security prisoner, and how Shakespeare saved them bothShakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That is, until she decided to teach Shakespeare in a place the bard had never been before—supermax solitary confinement.In this unwelcoming place, surrounded by inmates known as the worst of the worst, is Larry Newton. A ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Doctor on the Inside

    From the County Jail to the Supermax

    Get both of Dr. William Wright’s best-selling, award-winning books in a singlevolume!Maximum Insecurity chronicles Wright’s true-life metamorphosis from suburbanear surgeon to life as the sole physician at Colorado’s maximum-security prison.Jailhouse Doc follows Wright’s transition from prison medicine to running theclinic at the county jail. Should be easy right? Not on your life.Told with a ... Read more

    $6.97 USD

  • City of Inmates

    Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965

    Series series Justice, Power, and Politics
    Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Burning Down the House

    The End of Juvenile Prison

    The nationally acclaimed “engrossing, disturbing, at times heartbreaking” (Van Jones) book that shines a harsh light on the abusive world of juvenile prisons, by the award-winning journalist“Nell Bernstein’s book could be for juvenile justice what Rachel Carson’s book was for the environmental movement.” —Andrew Cohen, correspondent, ABC NewsWhen teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cambiando de Lente

    Un Nuevo Enfoque para el Crimen y la Justicia

    by Howard Zehr ...
    Traducido por:Cristián D. Quezada González, José ElíasAlejandro Sánchez Ibarra,Sylvia Whitney Beitzel y Vernon E. JantziEste libro tiene que ver con principios e ideas. Buscatal vez presuntuosamenteidentificar y evaluar algunas de las conclusiones básicas que hacemos sobre el crimen, la justicia y de cómo vivimos en sociedad. Intenta esquematizar brevemente cómo llegamos a sacar estas conclusiones ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Changing Lenses

    A New Focus for Crime and Justice

    by Howard Zehr ...
    Crime victims have many needs, most of which our criminal justice system ignores. In fact, the justice system often increases the injury. Offenders are less ignored by this system, but their real needsfor accountability, for closure, for healingare also left unaddressed.Such failures are not accidental, but are inherent in the very definitions and assumptions which govern our thinking about crime ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hell Is a Very Small Place

    Voices from Solitary Confinement

    “An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement” from the prisoners who have survived it (New York Review of Books).On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond fifteen days—has been denounced as a form of cruel and degrading treatment by the UN Special Rapporteur on ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death Sentence

    The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes, and Punishment

    by Jerry Bledsoe ...
    In this “true story that reads like a novel,” the #1 New York Times–bestselling author reveals the facts behind a notorious Southern murder case (Library Journal).When North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor died after a sudden illness, his forty-six-year-old fiancée, Velma Barfield, was overcome with grief. Taylor’s family grieved with her—until the autopsy revealed traces of arsenic poisoning. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.

    So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.In a shattering work that shifts between a woman’s private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar’s fierce critique of the American prison system, Danielle Allen seeks answers to what, for many years, felt unanswerable. Why? Why did her cousin, a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Rough Justice in Ontario

    The Trial of Andy Watson

    by J. A. Lang ...
    When 74-year-old Lise Fredette disappeared in November 2014, the only traces found were a house key, her glasses, an earring and some blood in the driveway of her home in Peterborough, Ontario. Shortly after, Andy Watson, an ex-boyfriend, was arrested and charged with her murder and jailed as an untried prisoner for two-and-a-half years. Despite the absence of a body, Watson was convicted and ... Read more

    $2.62 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Decarcerating Disability

    Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition

    This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarcerationPrison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Awful Killing of Sarah Watts

    A Story of Confessions, Acquittals and Jailbreaks

    A true crime account of a murdered teen in Victorian-era England, the Scotland Yard sergeant sent to investigate, and the gripping events that followed.Before Road there was Frome . . . before Whicher there was Smith . . . before the heartless slaughter of four-year-old Saville Kent, there was the brutal rape and murder of fourteen-year-old Sarah Watts.Taking place nine years earlier than the Road ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cocaine Diaries

    A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare

    'It won't happen to me. That's what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did - I got caught.'Caught smuggling half a million euros' worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques prison outside Caracas. There he was plunged into a nightmarish world of coke-fuelled killings, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Almost the Perfect Murder

    The Killing of Elaine O’Hara, the Extraordinary Garda Investigation and the Trial That Stunned the Nation: The Only Complete Inside Account

    by Paul Williams ...
    From Ireland's leading crime journalist, Paul Williams, comes the definitive account of the case that gripped the nation.'A book that had to be written' Ray D'Arcy, RTÉ Radio 1For over a year, everyone assumed missing Dublin woman Elaine O'Hara had ended her own life. But after her remains were found, the police discovered that Elaine was in thrall to a man who had spent years grooming her to let ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The History of Newgate Prison

    A history of the iconic London prison, featuring insights on daily life, the evolution of prison systems, and famous inmates.As the place where prisoners, male and female, awaited trial, execution, or transportation Newgate was Britain’s most feared gaol for over 700 years. It probably best known today from the novels of Charles Dickens including Barnaby Rudge and Great Expectations.But there is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus