Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
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Corrections in Ink by Keri Blakinger
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The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Notes from a Deadhouse by Dostoevsky
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Prison life is actually pretty interesting. It’s like its own town/community in many ways except more violent and depressing!
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Kingpin by Richard Stratton, his first book, Smugglers Blues tells his story of how he ended up in prison smuggling drugs.
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Sanyika Shakur wrote a few books about gang and prison life.
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver.
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Papillon
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Papillon by Henri Charriere
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Running the Books – by someone who finds themselves a prison librarian. Very interesting look at the impact books can have and the intersection with this particular population.
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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption- Stephen King
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American prison by Shane Bauer
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Midnight Express. American in a Moroccan prison.
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Orange is the New Black – Piper Kerman
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*The House of the Dead*, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1862).
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*In The Belly of The Beast* by Jack Abbott.
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Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo, read it in high school and it forever changed how I viewed the death penalty
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Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
Corrections in Ink by Keri Blakinger
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Notes from a Deadhouse by Dostoevsky
Prison life is actually pretty interesting. It’s like its own town/community in many ways except more violent and depressing!
Kingpin by Richard Stratton, his first book, Smugglers Blues tells his story of how he ended up in prison smuggling drugs.
Sanyika Shakur wrote a few books about gang and prison life.
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver.
Papillon
Papillon by Henri Charriere
Running the Books – by someone who finds themselves a prison librarian. Very interesting look at the impact books can have and the intersection with this particular population.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption- Stephen King
American prison by Shane Bauer
Midnight Express. American in a Moroccan prison.
Orange is the New Black – Piper Kerman
*The House of the Dead*, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1862).
*In The Belly of The Beast* by Jack Abbott.
Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo, read it in high school and it forever changed how I viewed the death penalty