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24 Books in the SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology Category

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Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist’s Freedom Song

Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist’s Freedom Song
The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution

The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Solitary

Solitary
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States

Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law

A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island

All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Writing My Wrongs

Writing My Wrongs
Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration

Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones

Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones
Prison Privatization in America: Costs and Benefits

Prison Privatization in America: Costs and Benefits
A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison

A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance

In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance
Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA

Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA
Are Prisons Obsolete?

Are Prisons Obsolete?
Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America

Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America
Live From Death Row

Live From Death Row
The Mugging of Black America

The Mugging of Black America
Seven Long Times

Seven Long Times