Witness An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State
Lyle May
Published 2024
272 pages
The most popular prison books of 2024
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 2024.
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Borstal A History of Rochester Prison
Ralph Allison
Published 2024
157 pages
What Kind of Bird Can't Fly
Dorsey Nunn
Published 2024
Carceral Apartheid How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
Brittany Friedman
2024 · 2025 edition
230 pages
The Incarcerated Modern Prisons and Public Life in Iran
Golnar Nikpour
Published 2024
352 pages
Justice For Omar A True Story of A Sister's Resolve, A Brother's Redemption
Rasheeda Jones, Omar Jones
Published 2024
260 pages
Justice Rules Swept Down the Rabbit Hole of the Penal System
Janet Sierzant
Published 2024
306 pages
Delicious in Dungeon
九井諒子, Taylor Engel, Abigail Blackman
Published 2024
2864 pages
What Are Prisons For? (What Is It For?)
Hindpal Singh Bhui
Published 2024
182 pages
The Warehouse A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration
James Kilgore, Vic Liu
Published 2024
191 pages
Rap and Redemption on Death Row Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose Behind Bars
Alim Braxton, Mark Katz
Published 2024
248 pages
Dietrich Bonhoeffer―The Last Eight Days
John Rev McCabe
Published 2024
502 pages
What Kind of Bird Can't Fly A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection
Dorsey Nunn, Lee Romney, Michelle Alexander
Published 2024
376 pages
Role Exit in Prison Officers Returning to 'Civvy Street'
Sarah Nixon, Darren Woodward
Published 2024
224 pages
A Poor Imitation of Death
Ara Oshagan
Published 2024
112 pages
No One Knows Their Destiny The Eckfeld Records
Tonia Eckfeld
Published 2024
210 pages
Prison Abolition Imagining a World Without Incarceration
Ebony Harris
Published 2024
316 pages
Punishment in International Society Norms, Justice, and Punitive Practices
Wolfgang Wagner, Linet R. Durmusoglu, Barbora Holá, Ronald Kroeze, Jan-Willem van Prooijen
Published 2024
256 pages
Neoliberalism and Punishment (Routledge Studies in Crime and Society)
Ignacio González Sánchez
Published 2024
170 pages
Holistic Responses to Reducing Reoffending
Ian Mahoney, Rahmanara Chowdhury
Published 2024
220 pages
Coerced Labour, Forced Displacement, and the Soviet Gulag, 1880s-1930s
Zhanna Popova
Published 2024
240 pages
Holly's Hell - Seven Years in a Thai Prison
Holly Deane-Johns
Published 2024
246 pages
Incarceration Games
Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms
Published 2024
398 pages
Punishment for the Greater Good
Adam J. Kolber
Published 2024
264 pages