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  • Orange Is the New Black

    My Year in a Women's Prison

    by Piper Kerman ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESWith a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • I'll Fly Away

    Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison

    For several years, Wally Lamb, the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, has run a writing workshop at the York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only maximum-security prison for women. Writing, Lamb discovered, was a way for these women to face their fears and failures and begin to imagine better lives. Couldn't Keep It to Myself, a collection of their essays, was published ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Newjack

    Guarding Sing Sing

    by Ted Conover ...
    **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • An acclaimed journalist sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system at Sing Sing.“Newjack is about as good as it gets—by turns gripping, funny, frightening, and sad.” —The Washington Post Book World**When Ted Conover’s request to shadow a recruit at the New York State ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Writing My Wrongs

    Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison

    by Shaka Senghor ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, from a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle-class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An honor roll student and a natural ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Trial by Jury

    When Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett answered his jury duty summons, he expected to spend a few days catching up on his reading in the court waiting room. Instead, he finds himself thrust into a high-pressure role as the jury foreman in a Manhattan trial. There he comes face to face with a stunning act of violence, a maze of conflicting evidence, and a parade of bizarre witnesses. But it is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Texas Tough

    The Rise of America's Prison Empire

    A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolutionIn the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

  • Incarceration Nations

    A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World

    In this crucial study, named one of the Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of 2016 and now in paperback, Baz Dreisinger goes behind bars in nine countries to investigate the current conditions in prisons worldwide.Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Professor, journalist, and founder of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Boys of the Dark

    A Story of Betrayal and Redemption in the Deep South

    A story that garnered national attention, this is the harrowing tale of two men who suffered abuses at a reform school in Florida in the 1950s and 60s, and who banded together fifty years later to confront their attackers.Michael O'McCarthy and Robert W. Straley were teens when they were termed "incorrigible youth" by authorities and ordered to attend the Florida School for Boys. They discovered ... Read more

    $11.99 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

  • Inside

    Life Behind Bars in America

    American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million people each year, and it is estimated that 6 to 7 percent of the U.S. population will be confined in their lifetimes. Despite these disturbing numbers, little is known about life inside beyond the mythology of popular culture.Michael G. Santos, a federal prisoner nearing the end of his second decade of continuous confinement, has dedicated the ... Read more

    $11.99 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

  • In the Place of Justice

    A Story of Punishment and Deliverance

    Wilbert Rideau, an award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in prison, delivers a remarkable memoir of crime, punishment, and ultimate triumph.After killing a bank teller in a moment of panic during a botched robbery, Wilbert Rideau was sentenced to death at the age of nineteen. He spent several years on death row at Angola before his sentence was commuted to life, where, as editor of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Corrections in Ink

    A Memoir

    “Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and relevant.” —TheNew York Times**An electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey—from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom—and how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced.Keri Blakinger always lived... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Wife

    An absolutely gripping crime thriller from John Nicholl that will have you hooked

    by John Nicholl ...
    Series Book 2 - The Galbraith Series
    What drives a woman to murder?Twenty-nine-year-old Cynthia Galbraith is serving a life sentence for murder, and struggling with the traumatic past that put her behind bars.When the prison counsellor suggests Cynthia write a personal journal exploring the events that drove her to murder, she figures she has all the time in the world and very little, if anything, to lose. So she begins to write, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ultimate Punishment

    A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty

    by Scott Turow ...
    America's leading writer about the law takes a close, incisive look at one of society's most vexing legal issuesScott Turow is known to millions as the author of peerless novels about the troubling regions of experience where law and reality intersect. In "real life," as a respected criminal lawyer, he has been involved with the death penalty for more than a decade, including successfully ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Running the Books

    by Avi Steinberg ...
    Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to attend Harvard, he has nothing but a senior thesis on Bugs Bunny to show for himself. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, Steinberg remains stuck at a crossroads, his “romantic” existence as a freelance obituary writer no longer cutting it.Seeking direction (and dental insurance) Steinberg takes a job running the library ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Charged

    The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration

    by Emily Bazelon ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America’s mass incarceration crisis—and charts a way out.“An important, thoughtful, and thorough examination of criminal justice in America that speaks directly to how we reduce mass incarceration.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy“This harrowing, often ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • This Is Ear Hustle

    Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life

    **A “profound, sometimes hilarious, often heartbreaking” (The New York Times) view of prison life, as told by currently and formerly incarcerated people, from the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast Ear Hustle“A must-read for fans of the legendary podcast and all those who seek to understand crime, punishment, and mass incarceration in America.”—Piper Kerman, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • 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

  • Pizza Bomber

    The Untold Story of America's Most Shocking Bank Robbery

    The bizarre, true story of a robbery gone wrong and the explosive murder that shocked the nation—as seen on Netflix’s docuseries Evil Genius.For the first time, two of the people who followed the story from the beginning—Jerry Clark, the lead FBI Special Agent who cracked what became known as the Pizza Bomber case, and investigative reporter Ed Palattella—tell the complete story of what happened ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $7.99 USD