Subject: Corrections/Criminal Justice
Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing
American law enforcement is a system in crisis. After explosive protests responding to police brutality and discrimination in Baltimore, Ferguson, and a long list of […]
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What set me free: a true story of wrongful conviction, a dream deferred, and a man redeemed
At age sixteen, Brian Banks was a happy, popular high school junior–and a nationally recruited All-American Football player, ranked eleventh in the nation as a […]
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Prisoners of politics: breaking the cycle of mass incarceration
America has the highest incarceration rate in the world among major nations not because of expert assessments of how to tackle crime, but because of […]
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Reading behind bars: a true story of literature, law, and life as a prison librarian
In December 2008, twenty-something Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master’s degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But […]
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A grip of time: when prison is your life
A Grip of Time (prison slang for a very long sentence behind bars) takes readers into a world most know little about–a maximum-security prison–and into […]
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From asylum to prison: Deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945
Prisons and asylums developed in parallel in the United States as institutions dedicated to the quarantine, detention, and punishment of the socially marginal. A widely […]
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Charged: the new movement to transform American prosecution and end mass incarceration
The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense, with judges ensuring a fair […]
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Until we reckon: violence, mass incarceration, and a road to repair
In the eloquent tradition of Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy, an award-winning leader in the movement to end mass incarceration takes on the vexing problem of […]
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The master plan: my journey from life in prison to a life of purpose
Growing up in a tough Washington, D.C., neighborhood, Chris Wilson was so afraid for his life he wouldn’t leave the house without a gun. One […]
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Good kids, bad city: a story of race and wrongful conviction in America
Documents the true story of one of the longest wrongful imprisonment cases in U.S. history, detailing how three African-American men were incarcerated for nearly four […]
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