History

• ​Berger, Dan. Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era. WorldCat Catalog Search
• ​Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to WWII. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Bonner, Raymond. Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Chammah, Maurice. Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Hernandez, Kelly Lytle. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Hinton, Elizabeth. America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960's. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Houppert, Karen. Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Jones, Sabrina; Marc Mauer; Michelle Alexander. Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling. WorldCat Catalog Search
• King, Gilbert. Devil in the Grove. WorldCat Catalog Search
• LeFlouria, Talitha L. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Mogul, Joey L.; Andrea J. Ritchie; Kay Whitlock. Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Murakawa, Naomi. The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Oshinsky, David M. “Worse Than Slavery”: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Thompson, Heather Ann. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. WorldCat Catalog Search

Memoirs

• Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Live from Death Row. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Adams, Jarrett. Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Allen, Danielle S. Cuz. The Life and Times of Michael A. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Baca, Jimmy Santiago. A Place to Stand. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Bandele, Asha. The Prisoner’s Wife: A Memoir. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Barnett, Brittany K. A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Betts, Reginald Dwayne. A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Bolden, Christian L. Out of the Red: My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Boyle, Gregory. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Brown, Cyntoia. Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Burton, Susan. Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Charriere, Henri. Papillon. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Davis, Angela. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Duncan, Lenny. United States of Grace: A Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope. WorldCat Catalog Search
• The Elsinore-Bennu Think Tank for Restorative Justice. Life Sentences: Writings from Inside an American Prison. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Genis, Daniel. Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Graves, Anthony. Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and Twelve Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Hayes, Billy. Midnight Express. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Hinton, Anthony Ray. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Hopwood, Shon. Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Huynh, Quan. Sparrow in the Razor Wire: Finding Freedom from Within While Serving a Life Sentence. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Jackson, George. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Jackson, Spoon. By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Kerman, Piper. Orange is the New Black. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Lamb, Wallie and the Women of York Correctional Institution. Couldn’t Keep it to Myself. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Lannert, Stacey. Redemption: A Story of Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Redemption Behind Bars. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Manuel, Ian. My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Masters, Jay Jarvis. Finding Freedom: How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Masters, Jay Jarvis. That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row. WorldCat Catalog Search
• McCall, Nathan. Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man In America. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Meade, Desmond. Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Meissner, Caits, ed. The Sentences that Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Parsell, T.J. Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Pearson, Felicia. Grace After Midnight: A Memoir. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Peterson, Marlon. Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Phelps, Carissa. Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets, One Helping Hand at a Time. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Poor, Nigel; Earlonne Woods. This is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Prejean, Helen. Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Rembert, Winfred. Chasing Me to My Grave. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Rhodes-Courter, Ashley. Three Little Words. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Rideau, Wilbert. In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Redemption. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Rodriguez, Luis J. Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Rodriguez, Luis J. It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolution, and Healing. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Senghor, Shaka. Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father's Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Senghor, Shaka. Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death and Redemption in an American Prison. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Shakur, Sanyika. Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Steinberg, Avi. Running the Books. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Tobola, Deborah. Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Ward, Jesmyn. Men We Reaped. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Wideman, John Edgar. Brother and Keepers. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Wilson, Chris. The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Woodfox, Albert. Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades of Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope. WorldCat Catalog Search

Prison Abolition

• The Abolition Collective. Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Bernstein, Nell. Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Davis, Angela. Are Prisons Obsolete? WorldCat Catalog Search
• Dixon, Ejeris. Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Kaba, Mariame. We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Norris, Zach. Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Spade, Dean. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next). WorldCat Catalog Search

Reference

• Alexander, Michele. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. WorldCat Catalog Search
• The Aperture Foundation. Prison Nation. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Armour, Jody David. N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Bauer, Shane. American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Bazelon, Emily. Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Butler, Paul. Chokehold: Policing Black Men. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Butler, Paul. Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Conover, Ted. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Dreisinger, Baz. Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Drucker, Ernest, ed. Decarcerating America: From Mass Punishment to Public Health.WorldCat Catalog Search
• Eisen, Lauren-Brooke. Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Fleetwood, Nicole R. Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Forman, James, Jr. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Garrett, Brandon. Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Gottschalk, Marie. Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Haney, Lynne. Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Harding, David J. After Prison: Navigating Adulthood in the Shadow of the Justice System. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Hayes, Chris. A Colony in a Nation. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Hinton, Elizabeth. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Karpowitz, Daniel. College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Kilgore, James. Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Kim, Alice (ed.). The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Kuklin, Susan. No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Lankford, Susan. Born, Not Raised: Voices from Juvenile Hall. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Larson, Doran. Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Law, Victoria. Prisons Make Us Safer: And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration. WorldCat Catalog Search
• LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Leovy, Jill. Ghettoside. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Miller, Reuben Jonathan. Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Rakoff, Jed S. Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Rathbone, Christina. A World Apart: Women, Prison, Life Behind Bars. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Richie, Beth E. Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Roth, Alisa. Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Santos, Michael G. Inside: Life Behind Bars in America. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Schenwar, Maya, & Victoria Law. Prison by any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Sered, Danielle. Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Smith, Mychal Denzel. Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Waldman, Ayelet. Inside this Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Wang, Jackie. Carceral Capitalism. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Western, Bruce. Homeward: Life in the Year after Prison. WorldCat Catalog Search

General

• Benioff, David. The 25th Hour. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Braly, Malcolm. On the Yard. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Chapman, Ryan. Riots I Have Known. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Crosby, S.A. Blacktop Wasteland. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Dawkins, Curtis. The Graybar Hotel. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Egan, Jennifer. The Keep. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Erdogan, Asli. The Stone Building and Other Places. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Gaiman, Neil. American Gods. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Gantos, Jack. Hole in My Life. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Jones, Tayari. An American Marriage. WorldCat Catalog Search
• King, Stephen. The Green Mile. WorldCat Catalog Search
• King, Stephen. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. WorldCat Catalog Search
• KunQuest, Quntos. This Life: A Novel. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Kushner, Rachel. Mars Room. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Mosley, Walter. The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow. WorldCat Catalog Search
• PEN America. As I Hear the Rain: PEN America Prison Writing Awards Anthology.
• PEN America. The Named and the Nameless: 2018 Prison Writing Awards Anthology.
• Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied Sing. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Waters, Sarah. Affinity. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Whitehead, Colson. The Nickel Boys. WorldCat Catalog Search

Poetry

• Betts, Reginald Dwayne. Felon: Poems. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Browne, Mahogany L. I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Eisen-Martin, Tongo. Blood on the Fog. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Horton, Randall. {#289-128}: Poems. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Knight, Etheridge. The Essential Etheridge Knight. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Poetry Magazine. The Practice of Freedom: February 2021.

Young Adult

• Asante, MK. Buck: A Memoir. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Canada, Geoffrey. Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Jackson, Tiffany D. Allegedly. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Myers, Walter Dean. Lockdown. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Myers, Walter Dean. Monster. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Neri, Greg. Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Stone, Nic. Dear Justyce. WorldCat Catalog Search
• Volponi, Paul. Rikers High. WorldCat Catalog Search