Category - Social Science
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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Blac...
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Getting Out & Staying Out: A Black Man's Guide to Success After Prison
PaperbackOriginal price $10.00 - Original price $10.00Original price $10.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /The United States of America has more people behind bars than any other country in the world and every year nearly 700,000 prisoners get released b...
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American li...
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Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The simple act of inscription, both minute and epic, can be a powerful tool to bear witness and give voice to those who are oppressed, silenced, an...
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and int...
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The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn “BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY” —Time The Nobel Prize winner’s towering m...
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Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardA Smithsonian Book of the YearA New York Review of Books “Best of 2020” SelectionA New York Times...
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Solitary
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Praise for Solitary: FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTIONFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONNamed One of Barack O...
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Life after Death Row: Exonerees' Search for Community and Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Life after Death Row examines the post-incarceration struggles of individuals who have been wrongly convicted of capital crimes, sentenced to dea...
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From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Situates the linkage between race and the death penalty in the history of the U.S. Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American...
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection)
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionThe Instant New York Times BestsellerA powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of ...
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection. Winner of the 2019 Moore PrizeFinalist, Dayton Peace Prize, 2019 "An amazing...
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Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A compelling, important addition to Hill Harper’s bestselling series, inspired by young inmates who write to him seeking guidanceAfter the public...
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The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In 1971, Eddie Conway, Lieutenant of Security for the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party, was convicted of murdering a police officer and...
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Live from Death Row
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal must be heard." --Alice Walker"Resonates with the moral force o...
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Why Are So Many Black Men in Prison?
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /African-American males are being imprisoned at an alarming and unprecedented rate. Out of the more than 11 million black adult males in the U.S. po...
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{#289-128}: Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Forgive state poet #289-128 / for not scribbling illusions / of trickery as if timeless hell / could be captured by stanzas / alliteration or sl...
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The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Winner, 2023 Stonewall Book Award—Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book AwardCrimeReads, Best True Crime Books of the Year This singular history of a p...
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The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerFrom the odd coincidence of a doctor with the surname Gilmer taking over the practice of the prior doctor with the same...
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Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunni...
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The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism...
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The Forgotten Men: Serving a Life without Parole Sentence
PaperbackOriginal price $41.95 - Original price $41.95Original price $41.95$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /Today there are approximately fifty thousand prisoners in American prisons serving life without parole, having been found guilty of crimes rangin...
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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL.In a dusty German bookshop, the no...
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Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the...
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