Suggested Readings
| Classic Works on Prison | |
| Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison | Michael Foucault |
| Memoirs from the House of the Dead | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Oxford History of the Prison | Norval Morris and David J. Rothman |
| The Prison and the Gallows | Marie Gottschalk |
| Criminal Justice Process | |
| Courtroom 302 | Steve Bogira |
| Indefensible | David Feige |
| Education | |
| Blink | Malcolm Gladwell |
| The Courage to Teach | Parker Palmer |
| Education is Translation | Alison Cook-Sather |
| A Pedagogy for Liberation | Ira Shor and Paulo Freire |
| Pedagogy of the Oppressed | Paulo Freire |
| Teaching to Transgress | bell hooks |
| The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell |
| To Know as We Are Known | Parker Palmer |
| We Make the Road by Walking | Myles Horton and Paulo Freire |
| Education in Prison | |
| Pell Grants for Prisoners | Jon Marc Taylor |
| Schooling in a “Total Institution” | Howard S. Davidson |
| Family, Children and Re-Entry | |
| After Crime and Punishment | Shadd Maruna and Russ Immarigeon |
| All Alone in the World | Nell Bernstein |
| Beyond Prisons | Laura Magnani and Harmon L. Wray |
| Crime and Family | Joan McCord |
| Doing Time on the Outside | Donald Braman |
| Invisible Punishment | Marc Mauer |
| Prisoners Once Removed | Jeremy Travis and Michelle Waul |
| Random Family | Adrian Nicole LeBlanc |
| Jails | |
| Inside Rikers | Jennifer Wynn |
| The Jail | John Irwin |
| Juveniles | |
| Juvenile | Joseph Rodriguez |
| Sleepers | Lorenzo Carcaterra |
| True Notebooks | Mark Salzman |
| Memoirs | |
| Brothers and Keepers | John Edgar Wideman |
| Chasing Justice | Kerry Max Cook |
| Crime and Punishment: Inside Views | Johnson and Toch |
| Descent Into Madness | Mike Rolland |
| In the Belly of Beast: Letters from Prison | Jack Henry Abbott |
| Iron House | Jerome Washington |
| Makes Me Wanna Holler | Nathan McCall |
| Manny: A Criminal Addict’s Story | Richard P. Rettig |
| Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member | Sanyika Shaur |
| Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing | Ted Conover |
| You Got Nothing Coming | Jimmy A. Lerner |
| Men and Prisons | |
| Prison Masculinities | Don Sabo, Terry A. Kupers, Willie London |
| The Violence of Men | Cloe Madanes |
| Prison Books by Incarcerated or Formerly Incarcerated People | |
| Behind Bars: Surviving Prison | Jeffrey Ian Ross, Stephen C. Richards |
| Convict Criminology | Jeffrey Ian Ross, Stephen C. Richards |
| The Fellas: Overcoming Prison and Addiction | Charles M. Terry |
| Life Sentences: Rage and Survival Behind Bars | Wilbert Rideau and Ron Wikberg |
| Life Without Parole | Victor Hassine |
| The Soul Knows No Bars | Drew Leder |
| Race and Ethnicity | |
| Code of the Street | Elijah Anderson |
| The Color of Justice | Samuel Walker, Cassia Spohn, William DeLone |
| Fist Stick Knife Gun | Geoffrey Canada |
| Guns, Violence, and Identities Among African American and Latino Youth | Deanna L. Wilkinson |
| Images of Color, Images of Crime | CoraMae Richey Mann, Marjorie S. Katz, Nancy Rodriguez |
| In Search of Respect | Phillipe Bourgois |
| Killing Rage, Ending Racism | bell hooks |
| No Equal Justice | David Cole |
| Racial Healing | Harlon L. Dalton |
| Savage Inequalities | Jonathan Kozol |
| Young, Black and Male in America | Jewelle Taylor Gibbs |
| Restorative Justice | |
| Doing Life: Reflections of Men and Women Serving Life Sentences | Howard Zehr |
| Healing Our Imprisoned Minds | Patrick Middleton |
| The Little Book of Restorative Justice for People in Prison | Barb Toews |
| Transcending: Reflections of Crime Victims | Howard Zehr |
| Studies of Prison Issues | |
| America’s Prisons, Opposing Viewpoints | Opposing Viewpoints Series |
| Are Prisons Obsolete? | Angela Davis |
| Confronting Confinement | John J. Gibbons, Nicholas de B. Katzenbach |
| Crime and Punishment in America | Elliot Currie |
| Downsizing Prisons | Michael Jacobson |
| Gates of Injustice | Alan Elsner |
| Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation | Joseph T. Hallinan |
| Hard Time Blues | Sasha Abramsky |
| Hard Time, Understanding and Reforming the Prison | Robert Johnson |
| Imprisoning Communities | Todd Clear |
| Ironies of Imprisonment | Michael Welch |
| It’s About Time, America’s Imprisonment Binge | James Austin and John Irwin |
| Lockdown America | Christian Parenti |
| Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America’s Poor | Tara Herivel and Paul Wright |
| Prisons and Jails: A Reader | Richard Tewksbury and Dean Dabney |
| Prisons and Prison Life | Joycelyn M. Pollock |
| Race to Incarcerate | Marc Mauer |
| The Real War on Crime | Steven R. Donziger |
| Total Confinement | Lorna A. Rhodes |
| The Warehouse Prison | John Irwin |
| The Arts and Prisons | |
| The Crying Wall and Other Prison Stories | Victor Hassine, Robert Johnson and Ania Dobrzanska |
| Guilty Reflections: One Boy One Man | Terrell Carter |
| Justice Follies | Robert Johnson |
| Only the Dead Can Kill | Margo Perin |
| Poetic Justice | Robert Johnson |
| Prison Writing in 20th Century America | H. Bruce Franklin |
| Shakespeare Behind Bars | Jean Trounstine |
| Violence | |
| Preventing Violence | James Gilligan |
| Violence, Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes | James Gilligan |
| Women and Prisons | |
| Couldn’t Keep it To Myself | Wally Lamb |
| The Criminal Justice System and Women | Barbara Raffel Price and Natalie Sokoloff |
| In Her Own Words | Leanne Fiftal Aarid, Paul Cromwell |
| I'll Fly Away | Wally Lamb |
| Inner Lives | Paula C. Johnson |
| Life on the Outside | Jennifer Gonnerman |
| No Safe Haven | Lori B. Girshick |
| Women in Prison | Kathryn Watterson |
| A World Apart | Cristina Rathbone |
| Other Related Books | |
| Thinking About Crime | Michael Tonry |
| More Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell | Jane Golden, Robin Rice, and Natalie Pompillo |
| Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell | Jane Golden, Robin Ride, and Monica Yant Kinney |
| Values Clarification | Sidney B. Simon, Leland W. Howe, Howard Kirschenbaum |
| How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas | David Bornstein |
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