Corrections/Criminal Justice Archives

Broken Scales

by Tom Diaz

This book analyzes the everyday actions of ordinary people in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray […]

This Is Ear Hustle

by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods

Co-created for the Radiotopia podcast network from PRX by visual artist Nigel Poor and inmate Earlonne Woods, who was serving thirty-one years to life before […]

Believing

by Anita Hill

From the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace, a new manifesto about the origins and course of gender […]

Abetting Batterers

by Andrew R. Klein and Jessica L. Klein

Abetting Batterers reveals the troubling patterns of inattention and incompetence that compromise the safety of women in the US. It looks at how the criminal […]

What We Know

by Vivian Nixon and Daryl Atkinson

When The New Press, the Center for American Progress, and the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement issued a call for innovative reform […]

Smoke but no Fire

by Jessica S. Henry

Smoke but No Fire tells the heartbreaking stories of innocent people convicted of crimes that simply never happened. A suicide is mislabeled a homicide. An […]

Narrative Change

by Hans Hansen

in Narrative Change, Hans Hansen offers readers a powerful model for creating significant organizational, social, and institutional change. He unpacks the lessons of the fight […]

Waiting for an Echo

by Christine Montross

Galvanized by her work in our nation’s jails, psychiatrist Christine Montross illuminates the human cost of mass incarceration and mental illness. Dr. Christine Montross has […]

The Shadow System

by Sylvia A. Harvey

A searing expose of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families-including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up. In […]

Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0

by Brenda Salter McNeil

We can see the injustice and inequality in our lives and in the world. We are ready to rise up. But how, exactly, do we […]