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1	Are Prisons Obsolete? more books like this by Angela Yvonne Davis add to wishlist World-renowned activist Angela Davis discusses how mass incarceration has had little or no effect on crime, how disproportionate numbers of the poor and minorities end up in prison, and the obscene profits the system generates. see all copies from $4.60! new only from $11.44! \| SVS
2	Inside: Life Behind Bars in America more books like this by Michael G Santos add to wishlist American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million people each year, and it is estimated that six to seven percent of the population will be confined in their lifetimes. Despite these disturbing numbers, little is known about life inside beyond the mythology of popular culture. Michael Santos has dedicated the last two decades of his life to ... see all copies from $7.07! new only from $8.41! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison more books like this by Lorna A Rhodes add to wishlist In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the 'supermaximums' - and the mental health units that complement them - Rhodes conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish and treat. Her often harrowing, sometimes poignant, ... see all copies from $15.97! new only from $28.74! \| SVS
4	Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett more books like this by Jennifer Gonnerman add to wishlist Elaine Bartlett served 16 years in a New York State prison for smuggling four ounces of cocaine from New York to Albany. Incarcerated in 1983, she was granted clemency in 1999, and immediately began working to repeal the punitive Rockefeller drug laws. However, her problems finding a job, decent housing, and a way to reconnect with her resentful ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Who Moved My Soap?: The CEO's Guide to Surviving Prison: The Bernie Madoff Edition more books like this by Andy Borowitz add to wishlist For all the disgraced corporation heads who are bound for the big house, thisguide teaches CEOs how to make the most out of their time in prison, from oneof America's best humor writers. 10 illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
6	Constitutional Rights of Prisoners more books like this by John W Palmer add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions
7	Crime and Punishment: Inside Views more books like this by Robert Johnson, Jr. add to wishlist Robert Johnson and Hans Toch's "Crime and Punishment: Inside Views" is an edited volume of original essays written by offenders "in their own words." The book provides a unique, inside view of crime, prisoners, and the experience of punishment. These essays represent the worldviews of 52 offenders, introducing the reader to the forces that shaped ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00!
8	Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in Man's Prison more books like this by T J Parsell add to wishlist When seventeen-year-old T. J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were through, they flipped a coin to decide who would "own" him. Forced to remain silent about ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $8.81! \| SVS
9	All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated more books like this by Nell Bernstein add to wishlist One in ten American children has a parent under criminal justice supervision--incarcerated, on probation, or on parole. Moving stories of real families show how the children of the incarcerated are routinely punished for their parents' status with minimal effort made to help them cope. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.06! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Lonesome Road more books like this by George Harsh add to wishlist see all copies from $2.68! signed copies \| first editions
11	Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners V. the USA more books like this by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Y Davis (Introduction by) add to wishlist "Expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice system. . . . His writings are dangerous."--The Village Voice In Jailhouse Lawyers, award-winning journalist and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal presents the stories and reflections of fellow prisoners-turned-advocates who have learned to use the court system to represent other prisoners--many ... see all copies from $10.16! new only from $10.16! \| SVS
12	Seven long times more books like this by Piri Thomas add to wishlist Seven Long Times is the prison memoir of one of America's greatest, most passionate chroniclers of life in dehumanizing prisons and on mean city streets. Wounded and arrested while committing an armed robbery, Thomas begins his long seven years of incarceration first in the prison ward at Bellevue and then in Sing Sing and Great Meadows (Comstock) ... see all copies from $8.14! signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Stone City more books like this by Mitchell Smith add to wishlist A detective story, in which Charles Bauman, a college professor, is gaoled for killing a child while driving drunk. He is sent to prison, where a series of brutal killings begin. Bauman is forced by the authorities to track down the killer. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Understanding Police Use of Force: Officers, Suspects, and Reciprocity more books like this by Geoffrey P Alpert, Roger G Dunham add to wishlist Whenever police officers come into contact with citizens there is a chance that the encounter will digress to one in which force is used on a suspect. Fortunately, most police activities do not involve the use of force. But those that do reflect important patterns of interaction between the officer and the citizen. This book examines those ... see all copies from $6.63! new only from $6.63! \| SVS
15 view cover	Undoing Time: American Prisoners in Their Own Words more books like this by Jeff Evans, Jimmy Santiago Baca (Foreword by), Craig W Haney (Afterword by) add to wishlist This anthology of autobiographical prison writings seeks to bring the reader inside the hidden world of some of America's two million prisoners. The 36 pieces represent works by the young and old, unknown and infamous, minimum security cheque forgers and death row inmates. see all copies from $11.92! new only from $28.86! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Fellas: Overcoming Prison and Addiction more books like this by Charles M Terry, John Irwin (Foreword by) add to wishlist An engaging writer, Chuck Terry presents this powerful study on the tremendous obstacles that drug addicts drifting in and out of prison must overcome in order to get clean and "make it" in society. Thoroughly researched and based on sound theory, this text covers how societal reaction to drugs and addiction shape criminal policy and behavior. ... see all copies from $30.12! new only from $60.16!
17	Inside the Walls of Alcatraz more books like this by Frank Heaney, Gay Machado add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality more books like this by Professor Regina G Kunzel add to wishlist Sex is usually assumed to be a closely guarded secret of prison life. But it has long been the subject of intense scrutiny by both prison administrators and reformers - as well as a source of fascination and anxiety for the American public. Historically, sex behind bars has evoked radically different responses from professionals and the public ... see all copies from $19.00! new only from $22.57! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt more books like this by Jim Goad add to wishlist Jim Goad's brief career as an underground celebrity has been studded with controversy, from an obscenity trial over a much-reviled "rape issue" of his magazine Answer Me, to a White House shooting in which the perpetrator quoted Goad's writing, to a two-and-a-half-year stint in prison for assault. Shit magnet is his manifesto, written while he was ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $10.16! \| SVS
20	Crime: Our Second Vietnam more books like this by Bill Glass add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row more books like this by Jarvis Jay Masters add to wishlist In 1990, while serving a sentence in San Quentin for armed robbery, Jarvis Masters was implicated as an accessory in the murder of a prison guard. A 23-year-old African-American, Jarvis was sentenced to death in the gas chamber. While in the 'maximum security' section of Death Row, using the only instrument available to him - a ball-point pen ... see all copies from $10.39! new only from $11.50! \| SVS
22 view cover	Women in Prison: Inside Concrete Womb Pbk more books like this by Kathryn Watterson, Professor Meda Chesney-Lind (Foreword by) add to wishlist "A graphic, arresting account of prison as a way of life." -- Kirkus Reviews see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.74! \| SVS
23 view cover	When Mothers Kill: Interviews from Prison more books like this by Cheryl L Meyer, Michelle Oberman add to wishlist Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer don't write for news magazines or prime-time investigative television shows, but the stories they tell hold the same fascination. "When Mothers Kill" is compelling. In a clear, direct fashion the authors recount what they have learned from interviewing women imprisoned for killing their children. Readers will ... see all copies from $8.58! new only from $8.58! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Americas Prisons 06 more books like this by Clare Hanrahan add to wishlist The United States imprisons more persons than any other nation. The social and economic costs impact every citizen. This collection of opposing viewpoints provides students an opportunity to weigh the merits of arguments that support or oppose the operation of America's prisons. see all copies from $5.98! new only from $31.76! \| first editions \| SVS
25	The joint more books like this by James Blake add to wishlist see all copies from $9.60! signed copies \| first editions

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