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Tag: prisons

Includes: prisons, Prisons, cárceles, prisões, Cárceles, PRISONS, Prigioni, Prisões, 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 (42 times)
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (25 times)
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis (20 times)
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (19 times)
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover (19 times)
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman (18 times)
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg (17 times)
Monster by Walter Dean Myers (17 times)
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume One, Parts I-II) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (16 times)
Affinity by Sarah Waters (15 times)
The Green Mile by Stephen King (14 times)
Papillon by Henri Charrière (12 times)
Sapphique by Catherine Fisher (11 times)
No More Prisons by William Upski Wimsatt (11 times)
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson (10 times)
Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko (10 times)
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis by Christian Parenti (10 times)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (9 times)
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (8 times)
Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire by Robert Perkinson (8 times)
The Crime of Punishment by Karl Menninger (8 times)
Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean (8 times)
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire Interviews with Angela Y. Davis by Angela Y. Davis (7 times)
Kind and usual punishment by Jessica Mitford (7 times)

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