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The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

Hugh Ryan

368 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ politics sociology challenging informative sad medium-paced
No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System by David Cole

No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System

David Cole

218 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness by Alisa Roth

Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

Alisa Roth

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction politics psychology dark medium-paced
Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South by Talitha L Leflouria

Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South

Justice, Power, and Politics

Talitha L Leflouria

280 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation by Beth E. Richie

Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation

Beth E. Richie

244 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction feminism race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Joey L. Mogul

Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States

Joey L. Mogul

216 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ informative reflective slow-paced
Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang

Carceral Capitalism

Semiotext(e) / Intervention

Jackie Wang

360 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Eric A. Stanley

365 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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