Books about American Prison

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In the Belly of the Beast
Jack Abbott

Similar Novels 70%

American Prison
Shane Bauer

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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
Ted Conover

Similar Novels 84%

Prison Writings in 20th Century America
H. Bruce Franklin

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Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
George Jackson

Similar Novels 87%

A Place to Stand
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Similar Novels 84%

Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Davis

Similar Novels 90%

The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner

Similar Novels 74%

Live from Death Row
Mumia Abu-Jamal

Similar Novels 96%

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

Similar Novels 90%

Committing journalism
Dannie M. Martin

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Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
Shaka Senghor

Similar Novels 96%

Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
Alisa Roth

Similar Novels 86%

Soul on Ice
Eldridge Cleaver

Similar Novels 92%

Blood in the Water
Heather Ann Thompson

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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson

Similar Novels 98%

Lockdown America
Christian Parenti

Similar Novels 80%

Texas Tough
Robert Perkinson

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Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World
Baz Dreisinger

Similar Novels 86%

The Enormous Room
E. E. Cummings

Similar Novels 82%

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