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 The Innocent ManBest Price: $2.98 Making insignificant bad choices during young age can sometimes lead to extreme hardship in the... |  Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the PrisonBest Price: $7.00 Other reviews have done a nice job of explaining the textual benefits of the book, so let me... |  My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told MeBest Price: $15.04 I am very much enjoying reading this book. Mahvish Khan gives the forbidding nature of Gitmo a... |  Standard Operating ProcedureBest Price: $11.75 A devastating book, both in its depiction of genuinely rancid individual behavior in an awful... |  Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's PrisonBest Price: $8.62 As soon as I finished reading this book, I went back to the beginning and read it again. I was... |
 Games Criminals Play: How You Can Profit by Knowing ThemBest Price: $13.77 This is truely one of the best books around for those that deal with inmates, especially those... |  The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small TownBest Price: $1.30 I hope that this is the last non-fiction book that John Grisham writes. I have not read a book... |  Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution (Testimonies from our Imprisoned Sisters)Best Price: $6.98 I was honored to hear the voices of these women. The book was filled with turmoil, pain,... |  Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty In The United StatesBest Price: $2.00 I remember when a guy in Nebraska went to death roll and was killed. He hurt a bother of a... |  Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest JailBest Price: $8.91 This was an amazing book. It read like fiction in the sense that I couldn't put it down. ... |
 Inside: Life Behind Bars in AmericaBest Price: $8.00 Santos wrote this book from prison, using pen and paper. He sent each portion of the manuscript... |  The Little Book of Restorative Justice (Little Books of Justice & Peacebuilding Series) (The Little Books of Justice & Peacebuilding)Best Price: $1.85 A very short read, clearly stated, and very well worth the hour. I love these "Little... |  Corrections in America (11th Edition) (Corrections in America: An Introduction)Best Price: $78.99 This has been the # 1 Intro to Corrections book in the market for nearly 30 years. The newest... |  The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956Best Price: $8.98 The title of this review is truly the way I feel about this book. The first volume relates... |  Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts on Both Sides Make Their CaseBest Price: $8.13 If you are looking for balanced arguments for and against the death penalty, this is probably... |
 My Friend LeonardBest Price: $1.20 This might just be the best book I have ever read. It's a great story, a great 'sequel' to... |  I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York PrisonBest Price: $12.49 I haven't read anything by Wally Lamb in a while and while this book was not exactly written by... |  Newjack: Guarding Sing SingBest Price: $5.91 It has been said that good writers must suffer for their craft. But few would have voluntarily... |  Behind Bars: Surviving PrisonBest Price: $6.99 My sister is in a county prison, so I sent her this book. She said she loved it ... even found... |  NO MATTER HOW LOUD I SHOUT : A Year in the Life of Juvenile CourtBest Price: $7.35 This is an exceptionally insightful book looking into the juvenile criminal justice system in... |
 Brother One CellBest Price: $8.45 Loved this book. As a prison memoir, it does not shock or scare. Korean prisons, despite their... |  Are Prisons Obsolete?Best Price: $5.08 Angela Davis talks about many different points in her book Are Prisons Obsolete? She tries to... |  The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American SouthBest Price: $14.96 I had never heard of the Willie Francis Story before, but after reading this book I will never... |  Punishment and Inequality in AmericaBest Price: $11.27 This books brings into light fundamental findings about mass incarceration. Studying the causes... |  The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth PrisonBest Price: $4.36 THIS BOOK KEPT ME GLUED TO THE PAGES. ALL I CAN SAY IS I WOULD NEVER WANT TO BE A GUARD IN A... |
 Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in GuantanamoBest Price: $14.52 After reading an FBI report about the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo, the U.S. Senator... |  Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison VolunteerBest Price: $8.95 Mr Shelton rises to the top of my heroes. My heroes are those that rise above their... |  Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George JacksonBest Price: $10.71 This book allowed the reader a rare peek into the thoughts, opinions and emotions of a boy... |  Pursuing JusticeBest Price: $64.17 This book is an introduction to the pursuit of justice and how our criminal justice system is... |  Corrections in the 21st CenturyBest Price: $79.80 The book arrived very promptly, and although it was used it was in almost perfect condition. ... |
 Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow JusticeBest Price: $6.75 Mr. Oshinsky, I cannot bring myself to use the titles "doctor" or... |  American CorrectionsBest Price: $107.89 The Book is in almost brand new condition just like the seller said. The only complaint is that... |  Russian Prison Tattoos: Codes of Authority, Domination, and StruggleBest Price: $19.99 For the most part a photography book Russian Prison Tattoos besides going into the meaning of... |  Finding Freedom: Writings from Death RowBest Price: $8.90 Sometimes inspiration comes from the most unlikely sources and in this case from a death row... |  Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally IllBest Price: $5.08 I nearly didn't purchase this book. I bought it only because it came with another book ('Street... |
 U. S. PENITENTIARY LEAVENWORTH (Images of America)Best Price: $13.32 On July 1, 1895, under the direction of warden James French, the first federal prison was born.... |  Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice (Christian Peace Shelf)Best Price: $6.75 This book was handed to my by the religious leader of my church after a discussion regarding my... |  Live from Death RowBest Price: $6.70 Mumia is brilliant, articulate and insightful. An author with a unique perspective carved from... |  Serving Time, Serving Others: Acts of Kindness by Inmates, Prison Staff, Victims, and VolunteersBest Price: $11.99 I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I just started working as a Psychiatric Nurse in the prison... |  In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From PrisonBest Price: $6.95 I had heard a lot about "In the Belly of the Beast" and its' author, Jack Henry Abbott... |
 Master the Corrections Officer, 15th edition (Arco Civil Service Test Tutor)Best Price: $8.00 Master the Civil Service Exam, 3rd edition (Master the Civil Service Exam) is a really good book... |  The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)Best Price: $10.90 For any who have any nostalgia for the Soviet Union, this book should put it to rest. This book... |  Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death PenaltyBest Price: $1.99 Being a death penalty agnostic I was pushed to the pro-capital punishment side of the aisle by... |  Corrections: An Introduction (2nd Edition) (MyCrimeKit Series)Best Price: $51.99 This book examines corrections from an academic view and from those who are at the center of the... |  The Jews of Sing SingBest Price: $14.61 As a former New Yorker, I thought I was pretty savvy; but I had no clue that there was such a... |
 The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful ExecutionsBest Price: $3.74 This book can not even be described as overt mendacity. Evil, lies, and deception are perhaps... |  Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun DanceBest Price: $4.25 This book, along with almost 50 fawning reviews, merely illustrates the effectiveness of... |  American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Ageof Mass ImprisonmentBest Price: $4.00 Introduction: Waking up the Furies In ancient Greek mythology, the Furies, awakened from time... |  Barron's Correction Officer ExamBest Price: $8.90 Updated to reflect the most recent requirements for correction officers in jurisdictions across... |  Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, Revised and Expanded EditionBest Price: $14.93 An updated edition of the classic examination of the link between crime and politics. Why is... |
 Infernal Device: Machinery of Torture and executionBest Price: $8.92 It's pretty clear that the author read Richard Sair's extremely rare work--usually catalogued... |  Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads)Best Price: $11.00 The new California prison system of the 1980s and 1990s was constructed deliberately - but not... |  Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass ImprisonmentBest Price: $16.88 The United States has become the world leader in incarceration of its citizens. As Vivien Stern... |  Behind Prison Walls: The Real World of Working in Today's PrisonsBest Price: $12.15 This is a good primer book for those uninitiated to the prison workplace, but having spent over... |  Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine BartlettBest Price: $2.33 It is a very good book, but I am a bit skeptical of some of the content |
 Corrections: A Contemporary Introduction (MyCrimeLab Series)Best Price: $64.00 This comprehensive text takes an historical and comparative approach. When appropriate,... | ||||
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