Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation, by Beth E. Richie
Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison, by Nell Bernstein
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, by Angela Y. Davis
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement, edited by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway, and Sarah Shourd
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson
Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice, by Paul Butler
Liberating Minds: The Case for College in Prison, by Ellen Lagemann
Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America, by Jonathan Simon
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, by Piper Kerman
A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America, by Ernest Drucker
Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration, edited by Tara Herival and Paul Wright
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, by Monique Morris
A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison, by Dwayne Betts
Race to Incarcerate, by Marc Mauer (also available in a graphic edition with Sabrina Jones)
Understanding Mass Incarceration, by James Kilgore
Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison, by Shaka Senghor