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Prisoners of Politics
- Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration
- By: Rachel Elise Barkow
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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With the authority of a prominent legal scholar and the practical insights gained through on-the-ground work on criminal-justice reform, Rachel Barkow explains how dangerous it is to base criminal-justice policy on the whims of the electorate....
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Compelling for any Audience
- By joel on 07-17-19
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81. Prisoners of Politics
- Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-04-19
- Language: English
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Tulia
- Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
- By: Nate Blakeslee
- Narrated by: James Boles
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Early one morning in the summer of 1999, authorities in the tiny West Texas town of Tulia began a roundup of suspected drug dealers....
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A Must Read
- By JOHN on 03-23-08
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82. Tulia
- Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
- Narrated by: James Boles
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 09-25-06
- Language: English
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Homeward
- Life in the Year After Prison
- By: Bruce Western
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments. In these circumstances, how do former prisoners navigate reentering society? Find out more....
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83. Homeward
- Life in the Year After Prison
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-30-19
- Language: English
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Free
- Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home
- By: Lauren Kessler
- Narrated by: Hollis McCarthy
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Ninety-five percent of the millions of American men and women who go to prison eventually get out. What happens to them? A gripping and empathetic work of reportage, Free reveals what awaits the hundreds of thousands who are released from prison every year....
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84. Free
- Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home
- Narrated by: Hollis McCarthy
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-19-22
- Language: English
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Hellmira
- The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp - Elmira, NY: Emerging Civil War Series
- By: Derek Maxfield
- Narrated by: Andrew Rowe
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
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Long called by some the “Andersonville of the North”, the prisoner of war camp in Elmira, New York, is remembered as the most notorious of all Union-run POW camps. It existed for only a year - from the summer of 1864 to July 1865....
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Northern Prison camp
- By Judith Richards on 12-16-24
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85. Hellmira
- The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp - Elmira, NY: Emerging Civil War Series
- Narrated by: Andrew Rowe
- Series: Emerging Civil War
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-29-20
- Language: English
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Unusual Punishment
- Inside the Walla Walla Prison, 1970-1985
- By: Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: John N Gully
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Unusual Punishment details the explosive story of failed reform at one Washington State penitentiary....
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Very Thorough and Accurate Account
- By Erin on 07-18-17
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86. Unusual Punishment
- Inside the Walla Walla Prison, 1970-1985
- Narrated by: John N Gully
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 11-17-16
- Language: English
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The Tin Ticket
- The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
- By: Deborah J. Swiss
- Narrated by: Corinne Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
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Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery—who created the most liberated society of their time.
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87. The Tin Ticket
- The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
- Narrated by: Corinne Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 11-26-24
- Language: English
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Bird Uncaged
- An Abolitionist's Freedom Song
- By: Marlon Peterson
- Narrated by: Marlon Peterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration—and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us....
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This book is unputdownable!!
- By AuthorAnnaBella on 07-29-21
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88. Bird Uncaged
- An Abolitionist's Freedom Song
- Narrated by: Marlon Peterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-13-21
- Language: English
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Alcatraz Screw: My Years as a Guard in America's Most Notorious Prison
- By: George H. Gregory
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Alcatraz Screw is a firsthand account from a prison guard’s perspective of some of the most storied years at the infamous U.S. Penitentiary at Alcatraz....
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Great Book, Excellent Narration!
- By Karen Sue Trexler on 05-13-20
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89. Alcatraz Screw: My Years as a Guard in America's Most Notorious Prison
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-07-20
- Language: English
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Mr. Smith Goes to Prison
- What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America's Prison Crisis
- By: Jeff Smith
- Narrated by: Jeff Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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In 2009 Smith pleaded guilty to a seemingly minor charge of campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and one day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester....
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A Book for Everyone
- By Debra on 11-11-15
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90. Mr. Smith Goes to Prison
- What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America's Prison Crisis
- Narrated by: Jeff Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 09-01-15
- Language: English
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Indefinite
- Doing Time in Jail
- By: Michael L. Walker
- Narrated by: Earl McLean
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have been denied bail....
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91. Indefinite
- Doing Time in Jail
- Narrated by: Earl McLean
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-28-22
- Language: English
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He Calls Me by Lightning
- The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty
- By: S. Jonathan Bass
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a Black teenager, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957....
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Knowledgable loved it
- By Janet Handy on 10-14-18
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92. He Calls Me by Lightning
- The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 05-02-17
- Language: English
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The Missouri State Penitentiary: 170 Years Inside "The Walls"
- Missouri Heritage Readers, Book 1
- By: Jamie Pamela Rasmussen
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
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Asked how the Missouri State Penitentiary compared to other famous prisons, a historian and former prison administrator replied, “It’s older and meaner.” For 168 years, it was everything other prisons were and more....
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awesome
- By Kindle Customer on 10-12-22
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93. The Missouri State Penitentiary: 170 Years Inside "The Walls"
- Missouri Heritage Readers, Book 1
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Series: Missouri Heritage Readers Series
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 04-29-22
- Language: English
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Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners
- The Story of Britain's Infamous Hangmen
- By: Steve Fielding
- Narrated by: Norman Gilligan
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Between them, the three men in the fearsome Pierrepoint dynasty executed over 800 people during a career spanning more than half a century....
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The Hangmen
- By Jean on 06-05-13
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94. Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners
- The Story of Britain's Infamous Hangmen
- Narrated by: Norman Gilligan
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 04-08-13
- Language: English
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These Walls
- The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails
- By: Eva Fedderly
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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Part on-the-ground reporting, part deep social and architectural history, These Walls is an eye-opening look at Rikers Island and the American justice system—and a challenge to our long-held beliefs about what constitutes power and justice.
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Eye-opening reflections on our incarceration system
- By Frances S. Shea on 11-22-23
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95. These Walls
- The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 10-24-23
- Language: English
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From Bobby to Bobo
- Memories of a New Mexico State Parole Officer
- By: Bob Becker
- Narrated by: Bob Becker
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
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When Bob Becker came home from his tour of military duty during the Vietnam era he was looking for "something a bit more restful."
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96. From Bobby to Bobo
- Memories of a New Mexico State Parole Officer
- Narrated by: Bob Becker
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 12-12-24
- Language: English
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Mandela
- My Prisoner, My Friend
- By: Christo Brand
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Christo Brand was an 18-year-old recruit to the South African prison service when he was sent to work at the Robben Island prison......
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great book. intense and highly emotional
- By Anonymous User on 09-15-19
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97. Mandela
- My Prisoner, My Friend
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 03-10-14
- Language: English
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Brother One Cell
- An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons
- By: Cullen Thomas
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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At age 23, Cullen Thomas was looking for something exciting to do. But he got more than he ever bargained for when an ill-advised stunt led to a drug arrest and a prison sentence in South Korea....
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this book could not be better
- By Kathleen on 03-25-07
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98. Brother One Cell
- An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 03-15-07
- Language: English
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This Is My Jail
- Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration
- By: Melanie Newport
- Narrated by: Faith Connor
- Length: 11 hrs
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Melanie D. Newport situates the late twentieth-century escalation of mass incarceration in a longer history of racialized, politically repressive jailing....
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99. This Is My Jail
- Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration
- Narrated by: Faith Connor
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 05-30-23
- Language: English
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The House of the Dead
- Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
- By: Daniel Beer
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
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A visceral, 100-year history of the vast Russian penal colony....
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the wild east
- By Gwbach on 02-25-17
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100. The House of the Dead
- Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-03-17
- Language: English
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