Bringing Ben Home : A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice by Barbara Bradley HagertyCall Number: KF9756 .B73 2024 (Main)
Publication Date: 2024
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Excerpt from book description: "Bringing Ben Home is the powerful story of one innocent man [Ben Spencer] who refused to admit that he was guilty of murder, and how his plight became part of a paradigm shift in how the legal system thinks about innocence as it institutes new methods to overturn wrongful convictions to better protect people like Ben Spencer."
Reap the Whirlwind: Violence, Race, Justice, and the Story of Sagon Penn by Peter HoulahanCall Number: HV8148.S32 H58 2024 (Main)
Publication Date: 2024
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Excerpt from book description: "The Sagon Penn incident forever altered how San Diego would respond to incidents involving police and communities of color. Based on court transcripts, personal interviews, and archival police reports, Reap the Whirlwind is a gripping true-crime narrative set against the evocative backdrop of Southern California."
American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion (ebook) by Zeke Caligiuri et al., eds.Publication Date: 2023
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Excerpt from publisher's book description: "Fifteen essays coedited by a collective of award-winning incarcerated writers."
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (ebook) by Robert Samuels & Toluse OlorunnipaPublication Date: 2022
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Amazon book description: "A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy—from his family’s roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing—telling the story of how one man’s tragic experience brought about a global movement for change."
Rebel Speak: A Justice Movement Mixtape (ebook) by Bryonn Rolly BainPublication Date: 2022
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Excerpt from book summary: "A literary mixtape of transformative dialogues on justice with a cast of visionary rebel activists, organizers, artists, culture workers, thought leaders, and movement builders."
Life and Death in Rikers Island (ebook) by Homer VentersPublication Date: 2019
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Excerpts from book description: "In Life and Death in Rikers Island, Homer Venters, the former chief medical officer for New York City's jails, explains the profound health risks associated with incarceration." "Pairing prisoner experiences with cutting-edge research into prison risk, Venters reveals the disproportionate extent to which the health risks of jail are meted out to those with behavioral health problems and people of color."
Chapter 6 describes the horrific experiences of Kalief Browder that occurred during 2010-2013 at Robert N. Davoren Complex, Rikers Island.
If you have access to Netflix, you can view the documentary series: Time: The Kalief Browder Story.
Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles From Walla Walla (ebook) by Photographs by Ethan Hoffman, text by John McCoy & foreword by Dan BergerPublication Date: 2018
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Excerpt from book description: "Journalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned its focus on reform and rehabilitation and returned to cell time and punishment." Concrete Mama includes many evocative historical photographs. This book's original publication date was 1981. It includes the introduction: Reading Concrete Mama, Then and Now—Tragedy, Failure, and the History of Prison in Washington, by Dan Berger.
Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary by Taylor Pendergrass & Mateo Hoke., eds.Call Number: HV9467.8 .S59 2018 (Main)
Publication Date: 2018
"Six by ten" [feet] describes the average size of the living space provided to many people who are incarcerated in solitary confinement in the U.S.
Excerpt from book description: "Six by Ten explores the mental, physical, and spiritual impacts of America’s widespread embrace of solitary confinement. Through stories from those subjected to solitary confinement, family members on the outside, and corrections officers, Six by Ten examines the darkest hidden corners of America’s mass incarceration culture and illustrates how solitary confinement inflicts lasting consequences on families and communities far beyond prison walls."
Mr. Hinton also describes what he had to experience in the documentary film: True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality. You can view this film online at Equal Justice Initiative's page: True Justice. Equal Justice Initiative also describes Mr. Hinton's story and case here.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan StevensonCall Number: KF373.S743 A3 2015 (Multiple copies on Reserve, 1 copy in Main)
Publication Date: 2015
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Lawyer (and now Prof.) Bryan Stevenson's account of working (beginning in 1988) to appeal Mr. Walter McMillian's wrongful conviction and death sentence.
Equal Justice Initiative (a nonprofit law organization founded by Prof. Stevenson in 1989) describes Mr. McMillian's story and case here.
Disrupted Childhoods: Children of Women in Prison (ebook) by Jane A. SiegelPublication Date: 2011
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Excerpt from book description: Disrupted Childhoods "provides first-person accounts of the experiences of children" who have a critical care-giver who is either arrested/awaiting sentencing or is incarcerated.
Note: BLS Library also provides an ebook version of this study: Joyce A. Arditti, Parental Incarceration and the Family: Psychological and Social Effects of Imprisonment on Children, Parents, and Caregivers (2012). In catalog record for this book, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (EBSCO). Unlimited user access. (Off campus: requires proxy server.)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (ebook) by Malcolm XPublication Date: Originally published: New York: Grove Press, 1965. First Ballantine Books ed.: New York: Ballantine Books, 1992.
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Excerpt from Nov. 5, 1965 book review in The New York Times: "'The Autobiography of Malcolm X’ is a brilliant, painful, important book." This autobiography also appears in the current Prison Library Support Network Wish List.