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  • A Time to Die

    by Tom Wicker
    The essential first hand account of the Attica Prison rebellion, back in print for the 40th anniversary of the uprising

  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Expanded Second Edition)

    by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

    This updated and expanded edition of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 's groundbreaking book features a new chapter and a foreword by Angela Y. Davis.

  • Six by Ten

    Edited by Mateo Hoke and Taylor Pendergrass

    A collection of intimate portraits told directly by people whose lives have been devastated by solitary confinement in America.

  • Caged

    by New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative

    An evocative, affecting play on the horrors of mass incarceration written collaboratively by prisoners who have experienced it first-hand.

  • Assata Taught Me

    by Donna Murch
    A fresh historical perspective on the fifty years since the founding of the Black Panther Party, in which the world's largest police state has emerged.

  • I Am Troy Davis

    by Troy Davis, Martina Davis-Correia, et al.
    A riveting eyewitness account of the Davis family's courageous struggle against America's flawed criminal justice system.

  • The Long Term

    Edited by Alice Kim, Erica Meiners, et al.

    Powerful, provocative narratives of people surviving the devastating affects of life in long term incarceration.

  • Missing Daddy

    by Mariame Kaba

    A father and daughter's love cannot be broken even when prison bars separate them.

  • We Do This 'Til We Free Us

    by Mariame Kaba

    A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba.

  • Policing A Class Society

    by Sidney L. Harring
    An in-depth critical analysis of how ruling elites use the police institution in order to control communities.

  • Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?

    Edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, et al.
    Explores the reality of US police violence against Black, Brown and Indigenous communities.

  • Exoneree Diaries

    by Alison Flowers
    Intimate portraits of four exonerees provide a window into the challenges of life after wrongful conviction.

  • Abolition. Feminism. Now.

    by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, et al.

    An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth E. Richie.

  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

    by Angela Y. Davis
    Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition.

  • I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love

    by Mahogany L. Browne

    The long form poem is tethered in folklore and personal narrative, detailing the impact of the destructive mass incarceration system.