Additional Resources
Other books-to-prisoners programs
- For a comprehensive list and states that are served, go to http://www.prisonbookprogram.org/otherprograms.php
Suggested reading
- Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Davis
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
- Race to Incarcerate, by Marc Mauer
- Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling, the above book in graphic novel form, good for teens. By Marc Mauer and Sabrina Jones
- No More Prisons, by William Upski Wimsatt
- Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against The Prison Industrial Complex, CR10 Publications Collective
- Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, by R.W. Gilmore
- Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, by Christian Parenti
- Criminal Injustice: Confronting the Prison Crisis, by Elihu Rosenblatt
- Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, by Victoria Law
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X
- Soledad Brother: the Prison Letters of George Jackson, by George L. Jackson
- Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Prison Abolitionists, by Mike Morris
- Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free US Political Prisoners, by Matt Meyer
Websites
Pennsylvania
- www.prisonsociety.org: Pennsylvania Prison Society, advocates on behalf of people in prison and their families
- http://www.decarceratepa.info: a grassroots campaign working to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania
National
- http://www.prisontalk.com: an extensive web community for prisoners and families of prisoners
- www.sentencingproject.org: clearinghouse of news and information about incarceration in America
- www.realcostofprisons.org: a national organization working to end mass incarceration. Site includes comics, writing and music “from the inside.”
- www.criticalresistance.org: a movement to end the prison industrial complex by creating healthy, stable communities “that respond to harm without relying on imprisonment and punishment.”
- www.prisonpolicy.org: Prison Policy Initiative, researches and documents the impact of mass incarceration on individuals, communities, and national welfare
- http://www.bjs.gov: The Federal Bureau of Justice statistics
- www.prisonlegalnews.org: an independent monthly magazine that provides review and analysis of prisoner rights, court rulings and news concerning prison-related issues
- www.prisonactivist.org: Prison Activist Resource Center, a prison abolitionist group
- www.nonewprisons.org: a collaboration of citizens and groups opposing new prison construction and expansion
- http://1in100.wordpress.com: a blog dedicated to shedding light on the prison problem in America
