If They Come in the Morning
by
Angela Y. Davis, Ed.
The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Angela, and including contributions from numerous radicals and commentators such as Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Erica Huggins, this book is not only an account of Davis's incarceration and the struggles surrounding it, but also perhaps the most comprehensive and thorough analysis of the prison system of the United States and the figure embodied in Davis's arrest and imprisonment—the political prisoner.
Punishment Without Crime: The True Story of a Man Who Spent Twenty-four Years in Prison for a Crime He Did Not Commit
by
Isidore Zimmerman, with Francis Bond.
The nightmare of an innocent boy, convicted [in New York in 1938] on perjured testimony for a murder four other boys had committed.
For more information, consult The National Registry of Exonerations, Isidore Zimmerman.
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True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
by
Mark Salzman
Also available in print @ NYPL.
Author Mark Salzman taught teen writers who were incarcerated at L.A.'s Central Juvenile Hall. The Kirkus book review states: "Here, he describes individual class sessions and reproduces (verbatim, he says, with only the spelling and mechanics standardized) some of the pieces the students wrote during the class."
Please also view sources in: News > Journalism of Incarcerated/Formerly Incarcerated Individuals.