Prison Stories Non-Fiction
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Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
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Robin Bernstein
4.40 avg rating β 48 ratings 4. 
Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants 4.15 avg rating β 348 ratings
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
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Shane Bauer
4.23 avg rating β 12,498 ratings 6. 
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy 4.45 avg rating β 4,804 ratings
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Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System 4.34 avg rating β 2,370 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 4.65 avg rating β 75,648 ratings
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Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison
by:
Nell Bernstein
4.27 avg rating β 648 ratings 14. 
The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women
by:
Scott W. Stern
3.79 avg rating β 377 ratings 
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No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison
by:
Xu Hongci
4.29 avg rating β 627 ratings 20. 
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Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song"
by:
Jerome Loving
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 62 ratings 
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Summoned at Midnight: A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Fort Leavenworth 3.72 avg rating β 32 ratings
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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century 3.99 avg rating β 4,344 ratings
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The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts
by:
SiΓ’n Rees
3.62 avg rating β 1,385 ratings 30. 
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
by:
Dave Eggers
4.30 avg rating β 352 ratings 31. 
Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice 4.31 avg rating β 1,084 ratings
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The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution
by:
James S. Liebman
4.24 avg rating β 151 ratings 33. 
The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
by:
Helen Prejean
4.21 avg rating β 752 ratings 34. 
Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
by:
Helen Prejean
4.14 avg rating β 8,952 ratings 35. 
Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul
by:
Anthony Graves
4.41 avg rating β 182 ratings 
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Prisoner of Tehran: The End of Childhood in Iran
by:
Marina Nemat
4.21 avg rating β 14,316 ratings 
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 4.65 avg rating β 75,648 ratings
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Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary 4.12 avg rating β 520 ratings
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Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Ain't Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Zoe A. Colley
3.88 avg rating β 8 ratings 46. 
The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner 3.78 avg rating β 281 ratings
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Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
by:
Albert Woodfox
4.42 avg rating β 4,017 ratings 
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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
by:
Mab Segrest
3.78 avg rating β 187 ratings 
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From Prairie to Prison: The Life of Social Activist Kate Richards O'Hare
by:
Sally M. Miller
3.71 avg rating β 7 ratings 
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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
by:
Avi Steinberg
3.51 avg rating β 4,309 ratings 62. 
Bomber grounded, runway closed: Prison letters and court notes of a Gulf War resister
by:
Ciaron O'Reilly
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating 62. 
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
by:
Blaine Harden
4.01 avg rating β 70,869 ratings 
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Laughing All the Way to the Bank (Robbery): My Education at Con College 4.33 avg rating β 61 ratings
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The Coffin Confessor: Some Last Wishes Don't Go Quietly to the Grave
by:
William Edgar
4.12 avg rating β 1,543 ratings 69. 
The Second Chance Club: Hardship and Hope After Prison
by:
Jason Hardy
4.03 avg rating β 724 ratings 
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From Jailer to Jailed: My Journey from Correction and Police Commissioner to Inmate #84888-054
by:
Bernard B. Kerik
3.67 avg rating β 255 ratings 72. 
Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism 3.83 avg rating β 12 ratings
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The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
by:
Chris Wilson
4.61 avg rating β 1,816 ratings 
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The Prison Torture in America: Shocking Tales from the Inside
by:
Paul Singh
4.05 avg rating β 19 ratings 
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Reformed: How a Life Sentence Became My Saving Grace
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Jojo Godinez
4.52 avg rating β 103 ratings 82. 
The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City 4.14 avg rating β 71 ratings
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Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom
by:
Barry Siegel
4.07 avg rating β 161 ratings 
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From Crime to Crime: Harold Shipman to Operation Midland - 17 cases that shocked the world 3.85 avg rating β 358 ratings
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Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System
by:
Jarrett Adams
4.77 avg rating β 643 ratings 
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Sinking the Sultana: A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey Home
by:
Sally M. Walker
3.92 avg rating β 129 ratings 
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The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis
by:
Raymond Davis
3.02 avg rating β 383 ratings 
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Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison
by:
Joshua Dubler
3.81 avg rating β 58 ratings 98. 
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
by:
Ilan PappΓ©
4.36 avg rating β 1,289 ratings 98. 
My Own Story, an Account of the Conditions in Kentucky Leading to the Assassination of William Goebel
by:
Caleb Powers
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 98. 
From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King 4.21 avg rating β 73 ratings