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Tag: prisons

Includes: prisons, Prisons, cárceles, prisões, Cárceles, Prisões, PRISONS, Prigioni, Prisons., prigioni — Translations: Gefängnisse, prison, тюрьмы, Gevangenissen, prigioni, cárceles — Show details

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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault (65 times)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (43 times)
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (25 times)
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis (22 times)
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (20 times)
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover (19 times)
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg (18 times)
Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman (17 times)
Monster by Walter Dean Myers (16 times)
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume One, Parts I-II) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (16 times)
The Green Mile by Stephen King (16 times)
Affinity by Sarah Waters (15 times)
Papillon by Henri Charrière (14 times)
Sapphique (Incarceron) by Catherine Fisher (12 times)
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis by Christian Parenti (12 times)
No More Prisons by William Upski Wimsatt (12 times)
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson (10 times)
Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire by Robert Perkinson (10 times)
Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko (10 times)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (10 times)
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (9 times)
The Crime of Punishment by Karl Menninger (9 times)
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer (8 times)
Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean (8 times)
Death Sentence: Escape from Furnace 3 by Alexander Gordon Smith (7 times)

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