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Profound books on the history of the penitentiary and of its hopes and disappointments -
The origins of American prisons -
Finding justice -
Stories for and about children of incarcerated parents -
Mass incarceration -
The strength it takes to be Black in America -
College in US prisons -
Prison books based experience and truth rather than invention and sensationalism -
The intersection of race, class, and justice in America
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Civil War P.O.W. camps -
Complicated mother and daughter relationships -
Engaging stories of historical adventures -
Living unusual, adventurous or alternative lives -
The Leopold-Loeb case -
To understand solitary confinement -
Imprisonment both literal and figurative -
With impossible escapes -
People trying to keep their shit together -
A divisive/polarizing main character -
Books for and about convicts and ex-convicts