Rikers
Graham Rayman, Reuven Blau
Published 2023
464 pages
The most popular prison books of 2023
Prison books are set behind walls and wire. Inmates, guards and the rules of a closed world shape stories of survival, friendship, injustice and escape. Novels and memoirs here are harsh and often deeply humane. This list shows the ones first published in 2023.
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This Plague of Souls
Mike McCormack
2023 · 2024 edition
192 pages
These Walls The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails
Eva Fedderly
Published 2023
224 pages
Mass Supervision Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom
Vincent Schiraldi
Published 2023
327 pages
Who Would Believe a Prisoner? Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920
The Indiana The Indiana Women's Prison History Project
Published 2023
308 pages
Street Legends Vol. 1
Seth Ferranti
Published 2023
148 pages
Avenging Child Sex Abuse
Joshua Long, Jason Vukovich
Published 2023
304 pages
Born Innocent Protecting the Dependents of Accused Caregivers
Michael J. Sullivan
Published 2023
264 pages
Jail Journeys The English Prison Experience Since 1918
Philip Priestley
2023 · 2025 edition
198 pages
Prisoners and Their Families
Pauline Morris
2023 · 2025 edition
326 pages
The Modern English Prison
W. L. Fox
2023 · 2025 edition
264 pages
Social Skills in Prison and the Community
Philip Priestley, James McGuire, David Flegg, Valerie Hemsley, David Welham
2023 · 2025 edition
196 pages
The English Prisons Their Past and Their Future
D.L. Howard
2023 · 2025 edition
190 pages
Women Corrections Executives The Keys to Reaching the Top
Kimberly Collica-Cox, Dorothy Moses Schulz
Published 2023
184 pages
A Muslim's Journal Don't Be Sad
Nzinga Islam
Published 2023
102 pages
Trusting Recovery and Desistance The Social Components Model of Recovery from Addiction and Desistance from Crime
Lauren Hall
Published 2023
172 pages
Detention and Its Alternatives Under International Law
Lorna McGregor
2023 · 2024 edition
288 pages
Gendered Perspectives of Restorative Justice, Violence and Resilience
Bev Orton
Published 2023
232 pages
Hidden Healers The Unexpected Ways Women in Prison Help Each Other Survive
Stephanie Covington
2023 · 2024 edition
272 pages
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V32 #1
Justin Piché
Published 2023
192 pages
Crime and Social Control in Pandemic Times (Sociology of Crime Law and Deviance, 28)
Mathieu Deflem
Published 2023
340 pages
Women’s Imprisonment in Eastern Europe 'Sitting out Time'
Arta Jalili Idrissi
Published 2023
144 pages
The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology
Victoria Canning, Greg Martin, Steve Tombs, Onwubiko Agozino
Published 2023
480 pages
H Blocks An Architecture of the Conflict in and about Northern Ireland
Louise Purbrick
Published 2023
216 pages