Bestsellers
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Framed
- Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
- By: John Grisham, Jim McCloskey
- Length: 12 hrs
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In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions.
By: John Grisham, and others
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The Sun Does Shine
- Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection
- By: Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin, Bryan Stevenson - foreword
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson - foreword, Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The Sun Does Shine is an arresting audiobook memoir of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading, written by a man who spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit....
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DOWN WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!!!
- By MUDDBONE on 04-29-18
By: Anthony Ray Hinton, and others
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The Innocent Man
- Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence....
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Wake up people...
- By Michael H. Wagner on 10-14-09
By: John Grisham
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Prisoners of the Castle
- An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners.
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Another chapter of history brought to life by a master
- By Steve on 09-28-22
By: Ben Macintyre
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Orange Is the New Black
- My Year in a Women's Prison
- By: Piper Kerman
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money 10 years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to 15 months at an infamous federal correctional facility....
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The show is better
- By Carlie on 02-06-20
By: Piper Kerman
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Rikers
- An Oral History
- By: Graham Rayman, Reuven Blau
- Narrated by: Nathan Agin, Jonathan Beville, Nancy Bober, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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What happens when you pack almost a dozen jails, bulging at the seams with society’s cast-offs, onto a spit of landfill purposefully hidden from public view? Prize-winning journalists Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau have spent two years interviewing more than 130 people....
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Great book!
- By FriscoBX153 on 01-28-23
By: Graham Rayman, and others
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Framed
- Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
- By: John Grisham, Jim McCloskey
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Performance
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In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions.
By: John Grisham, and others
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The Sun Does Shine
- Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection
- By: Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin, Bryan Stevenson - foreword
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson - foreword, Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The Sun Does Shine is an arresting audiobook memoir of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading, written by a man who spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit....
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DOWN WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!!!
- By MUDDBONE on 04-29-18
By: Anthony Ray Hinton, and others
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The Innocent Man
- Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence....
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Wake up people...
- By Michael H. Wagner on 10-14-09
By: John Grisham
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Prisoners of the Castle
- An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners.
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Another chapter of history brought to life by a master
- By Steve on 09-28-22
By: Ben Macintyre
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Orange Is the New Black
- My Year in a Women's Prison
- By: Piper Kerman
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money 10 years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to 15 months at an infamous federal correctional facility....
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The show is better
- By Carlie on 02-06-20
By: Piper Kerman
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Rikers
- An Oral History
- By: Graham Rayman, Reuven Blau
- Narrated by: Nathan Agin, Jonathan Beville, Nancy Bober, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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What happens when you pack almost a dozen jails, bulging at the seams with society’s cast-offs, onto a spit of landfill purposefully hidden from public view? Prize-winning journalists Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau have spent two years interviewing more than 130 people....
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Great book!
- By FriscoBX153 on 01-28-23
By: Graham Rayman, and others
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The Faithful Executioner
- Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- By: Joel F. Harrington
- Narrated by: James Gillies
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington vividly re-creates a life filled with stark contrasts, from the young apprentice's rigorous training under his executioner father....
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Excellent
- By James on 03-30-18
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Captive in Iran
- A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison
- By: Maryam Rostampour, Marziyeh Amirizadeh, John Perry
- Narrated by: Patty Fogarty
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In Captive in Iran, Maryam and Marziyeh recount their 259 days in Evin. It’s an amazing story of unyielding faith - when denying God would have meant freedom....
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Sorry, but
- By E. A. Boyce on 09-06-15
By: Maryam Rostampour, and others
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American Prison
- A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
- By: Shane Bauer
- Narrated by: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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After working as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison, Shane Bauer wrote an exposé about his experiences. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America....
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Disgusting
- By Frank on 09-23-18
By: Shane Bauer
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Corrections in Ink
- A Memoir
- By: Keri Blakinger
- Narrated by: Keri Blakinger
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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An electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey—from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom—emerging with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced....
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Brutal honesty, great listen
- By Enzo G. on 06-12-22
By: Keri Blakinger
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Punished
- Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
- By: Victor M. Rios
- Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Rios followed a group of 40 delinquent Black and Latino boys for three years. These boys found themselves in a vicious cycle, caught in a spiral of punishment and incarceration....
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audio goes out in ch 4 at 25:30
- By Amazon Customer on 04-12-18
By: Victor M. Rios
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In the Place of Justice
- A Story of Punishment and Deliverance
- By: Wilbert Rideau
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From Wilbert Rideau, the award-winning journalist who spent 44 years in Louisiana prisons working against unimaginable odds to redeem himself, the story of a remarkable life: A crime, its punishment, and ultimate triumph....
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Rideau and Hoffman are BRILLANT!!
- By Gary Kastal on 07-03-10
By: Wilbert Rideau
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Love and Justice
- By: Jonathan Irons, Maya Moore Irons, Bryan Stevenson - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: Jonathan Irons, Maya Moore Irons
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of Just Mercy, an inspirational memoir by WNBA star Maya Moore Irons and her husband, Jonathan Irons, who she helped free from a wrongful conviction....
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Maya and Jeremy are heroes.
- By Patirica Flannery on 04-20-24
By: Jonathan Irons, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Lauren Kessler
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Death Penalty Debates
- Net Positive or Net Negative
- By: Steven Gosney
- Narrated by: Steven Gosney
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Out debate your opponents by understanding all sides of the death penalty debate....
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Informative and insightful
- By Johnathan and Katie on 03-11-24
By: Steven Gosney
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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
By: Nate Blakeslee
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Inside Alcatraz
- My Time on the Rock
- By: Jim Quillen
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives....
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A Cautionary Tale of a Life Misspent
- By Rob S. on 03-16-17
By: Jim Quillen
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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
- Unabridged
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For nearly a century, the Rikers Island jail complex has stood on a 413-acre man-made island in the East River of New York....
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Eye-opening reflections on our incarceration system
- By Frances S. Shea on 11-22-23
By: Eva Fedderly
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This Is Ear Hustle
- Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life
- By: Nigel Poor, Earlonne Woods
- Narrated by: Nigel Poor, Earlonne Woods, Lt. Sam Robinson, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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An illuminating view of prison life, as told by currently and formerly incarcerated people, from the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast Ear Hustle....
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Crying, laughing and goosebumps
- By jennifer hill on 10-19-21
By: Nigel Poor, and others
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Writing My Wrongs
- Life, Death, and One Man's Story of Redemption in an American Prison
- By: Shaka Senghor
- Narrated by: Shaka Senghor
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle-class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An honor roll student and a natural leader, he dreamed of becoming a doctor—but at age eleven, his parents’ marriage began to unravel....
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My Inspiration
- By Max on 03-15-16
By: Shaka Senghor
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The Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated
- The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding Series
- By: Howard Zehr
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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Howard Zehr proposes workable principles and practices for making restorative justice possible in this revised and updated edition of his best-selling, seminal book on the movement. Restorative justice emphasizes identifying the justice needs of everyone involved in a crime....
By: Howard Zehr
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Correction
- Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change
- By: Ben Austen
- Narrated by: Brett Barry
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world’s incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichés—paying a debt to society; you do the crime, you do the time—there is little sense collectively in America what constitutes retribution or atonement. We don’t actually know why we punish....
By: Ben Austen
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Last Woman Hanged
- The Terrible True Story of Louisa Collins
- By: Caroline Overington
- Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a mother of 10 children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands had died suddenly and the Crown, convinced that Louisa poisoned them with arsenic, put her on trial....
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Enlightening, entertaining and exceptionally done
- By Karol Heim on 02-09-24
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No Human Contact
- Solitary Confinement, Maximum Security, and Two Inmates Who Changed the System
- By: Pete Earley
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1983, Thomas Silverstein and Clayton Fountain, both serving life sentences at the U.S. Prison in Marion, Illinois, separately murdered two correction officers on the same day. The Bureau of Prisons condemned both men to the severest punishment that could legally be imposed....
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Amazing
- By jessica on 03-23-24
By: Pete Earley
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The Big Book of Restorative Justice
- Four Classic Justice & Peacebuilding Books in One Volume (Justice and Peacebuilding)
- By: Howard Zehr, Allan MacRae, Kay Pranis, and others
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton, Adam Prugh
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Restorative justice, with its emphasis on identifying the justice needs of everyone involved in a crime, is a worldwide movement of growing influence that is helping victims and communities heal while holding criminals accountable for their actions....
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great book
- By Amazon Customer on 02-17-20
By: Howard Zehr, and others
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Incarceration Nations
- A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World
- By: Baz Dreisinger
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Baz Dreisinger, a professor, a journalist, and the founder of the Prison-to-College Pipeline, looks into the human stories of incarcerated men and women....
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Ear opener
- By Jason Sookram on 04-13-17
By: Baz Dreisinger
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Dead Man Walking
- The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
- By: Helen Prejean, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Susan Sarandon, and others
- Narrated by: Helen Prejean
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison....
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A must read, haunting tale
- By Michael DeNobile on 10-16-21
By: Helen Prejean, and others
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A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing
- The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
- By: DaMaris B. Hill
- Narrated by: Mia Ellis
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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From Harriet Tubman to Assata Shakur, Ida B. Wells to Sandra Bland and Black Lives Matter, black women freedom fighters have braved violence, scorn, despair and isolation in order to lodge their protests....
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Brilliant
- By Andrea Reynolds on 09-19-19
By: DaMaris B. Hill
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Mass Supervision
- Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom
- By: Vincent Schiraldi
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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We've heard a lot in recent years about the nearly 2.1 million people incarcerated in American prisons and jails. But what about the approximately four million more who are on probation and parole—monitored by the state at great expense....
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On the Run
- Fugitive Life in an American City
- By: Alice Goffman
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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A riveting, groundbreaking account of how the war on crime has torn apart inner-city communities....
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A view from one side of the street......
- By Luanne Ollivier on 08-13-15
By: Alice Goffman
New releases
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Abolitionist Intimacies
- By: El Jones
- Narrated by: Aiza Ntibarikure
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work.
By: El Jones
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Crime and Social Deviation
- By: Shlomo Shoham
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Criminologists, it has been said, are "kings without countries,- for their territories have never been deline-ated..Because the clashes between human behavior and criminal law norms do not constitute a clearly defined behavioral entity, criminology must draw its basic concepts and methodology from the behavi-oral sciences, biology, and, to some extent, the history and sociology of criminal law. A bold synthesis of the various related disciplines is, therefore, essential. Professor Shlomo Shoham has, in Crime and Social Deviation, undertaken such a synthesis, utilizing a unique theoretical ...
By: Shlomo Shoham
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The Punishment Response
- By: Graeme Newman
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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An acclaimed treatise on the history, philosophy and psychology of punishment. "...read with enormous appreciation for its erudition and method of analysis..." -- Michel Foucault.
By: Graeme Newman
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Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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An icon of revolutionary politics, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for prison abolition for over fifty years. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis’s essays, conversations, and interviews over the years, showing how her thinking has sharpened and evolved even as she has remained uncompromising in her commitment to collective liberation.
By: Angela Y. Davis
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The World's Worst Prisons
- Inside Stories from the Most Dangerous Jails on Earth
- By: Karen Farrington
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Incarceration has a long and inglorious history, from dungeons in the bowels of castles to oppressive penal colonies in Australia. Karen Farrington brings this history up to the 21st century, exploring some of the world's worst prisons, from Alcatraz to Pollsmoor, and the unending battles that rage between convicts and warders. Inside the prison walls, gangs rule, guards devise sadistic punishments, and newcomers suffer abuse at the hands of experienced tormentors.
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Very interesting read
- By Katie Taylor on 04-29-24
By: Karen Farrington
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Just and Painful
- A Case for the Corporal Punishment of Criminals
- By: Graeme Newman
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Not everyone will agree with this book. Some will say it is a case for torture. It is not. But everyone who reads it, especially those concerned that today's longer, tougher sentences are turning the U.S. into an "inmate nation"-will be forced to rethink exactly what we mean by punishment. And justice. This book Is for everyone outraged by crime-and by the chaos of our criminal justice system. Why, Graeme Newman asks, has reform after reform failed to halt the spread of crime? How can we demand long, mandatory sentences when voters refuse to spend the money to build more and bigger prisons?...
By: Graeme Newman
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Abolitionist Intimacies
- By: El Jones
- Narrated by: Aiza Ntibarikure
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work.
By: El Jones
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Crime and Social Deviation
- By: Shlomo Shoham
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Criminologists, it has been said, are "kings without countries,- for their territories have never been deline-ated..Because the clashes between human behavior and criminal law norms do not constitute a clearly defined behavioral entity, criminology must draw its basic concepts and methodology from the behavi-oral sciences, biology, and, to some extent, the history and sociology of criminal law. A bold synthesis of the various related disciplines is, therefore, essential. Professor Shlomo Shoham has, in Crime and Social Deviation, undertaken such a synthesis, utilizing a unique theoretical ...
By: Shlomo Shoham
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The Punishment Response
- By: Graeme Newman
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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An acclaimed treatise on the history, philosophy and psychology of punishment. "...read with enormous appreciation for its erudition and method of analysis..." -- Michel Foucault.
By: Graeme Newman
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Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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An icon of revolutionary politics, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for prison abolition for over fifty years. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis’s essays, conversations, and interviews over the years, showing how her thinking has sharpened and evolved even as she has remained uncompromising in her commitment to collective liberation.
By: Angela Y. Davis
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The World's Worst Prisons
- Inside Stories from the Most Dangerous Jails on Earth
- By: Karen Farrington
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Incarceration has a long and inglorious history, from dungeons in the bowels of castles to oppressive penal colonies in Australia. Karen Farrington brings this history up to the 21st century, exploring some of the world's worst prisons, from Alcatraz to Pollsmoor, and the unending battles that rage between convicts and warders. Inside the prison walls, gangs rule, guards devise sadistic punishments, and newcomers suffer abuse at the hands of experienced tormentors.
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Very interesting read
- By Katie Taylor on 04-29-24
By: Karen Farrington
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Just and Painful
- A Case for the Corporal Punishment of Criminals
- By: Graeme Newman
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Not everyone will agree with this book. Some will say it is a case for torture. It is not. But everyone who reads it, especially those concerned that today's longer, tougher sentences are turning the U.S. into an "inmate nation"-will be forced to rethink exactly what we mean by punishment. And justice. This book Is for everyone outraged by crime-and by the chaos of our criminal justice system. Why, Graeme Newman asks, has reform after reform failed to halt the spread of crime? How can we demand long, mandatory sentences when voters refuse to spend the money to build more and bigger prisons?...
By: Graeme Newman