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Further Reading and Research
Oral Histories and First-Person Accounts
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
Couldn't Keep it to Myself by Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution
Surviving Justice by Voices of Witness
Six By Ten by Voices of Witness
Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing
Solitary by Albert Woodfox
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Dogs on the Inside (documentary)
The Work (documentary)
"Ear Hustle" (podcast)
History and Perspective on Prison in America
American Prison by Shane Bauer
Race to Incarcerate by Marc Mauer
Race to Incarcerate: Graphic Retelling by Marc Mauer
Punishment Without Crime by Alexandra Natapoff
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Punishment Without Crime by Alexandra Natapoff
13th (documentary)
"Serial" season 3 (podcast)
The Marshall Project (website)
The Corner by David Simon
On the Run by Alice Goffman
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve Ewing
"Seeing White" (podcast)
Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison by Bruce Western
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman, Jr.
Misdemeanorland by Issa Kohler-Haussman
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