These are a collection of titles we recommend for anyone who wants to gain knowledge on ending state violence and the numerous problems of incarceration. (This page is a work in progress)
On the Death Penalty:
Prisoner and Ex-prisoner memoirs/biographies:
Videos: The Darkest Hour
On Wrongful Conviction:
Videos (coming soon)
On Prisoner Resistance:
On Prison Abolition, Rethinking Justice, and Ending Mass Incarceration:
On Ending Policing
On Immigrant Detention:
Video: Residents on Both Sides of the Border Try to Help Asylum Seekers Illegally Turned Away by US Govt.
On Prison Issues:
Good Introductions For Youth/Teens:
Moonrise, by Sarah Crossan (fiction)
Real Justice–Non-fiction stories of Wrongful Convictions, series by Lorimer Press
The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti (Non-fiction graphic novel) by Rick Geary
Book List on Theory and Prison History:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/44634.Prison_History_Theory
Abolitionist Syllabus:
https://icopa2018.com/pre-conference-events/abolitionist-reading-discussion-group/reading-list/
