Curated by Reginald Bell
Articles
After False Drug Test, He was in Solitary Confinement for 120 Days by Jan Ransom
Ex-Incarcerated Student: Society owes men and women in prison chance to return whole by Giovannie Hernandez
Prison Industrial Complex: What is it? Legal Slavery? How does racism and the gender gap play a role? by Deisy Salas
Read Cyntoia Brown-Long’s note to her 16-year-old self facing life in prison by Juan Buitrago
When Mental Illness Is Severe by Jane Brody
Books
Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States by Tony Platt
Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison by Nell Bernstein
Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court by Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison by Bruce Western
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing by Issa Kohler-Hausmann
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys by Victor M Rios
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal by Alexandra Natapoff
Rethinking Incarceration by Dominique Gilliard
Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from Civil War to World War II by Douglass A Blackmon
Documentaries/Movies
13th by Ava Duvernay
Milwaukee 53206: A Community Serves Time by Adam Miller
When They See Us by Ava Duvernay
Tedx Talks
Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform by Marlon Peterson
A prosecutor’s vision for a better justice system by Adam Foss
Germany: Low Crime, Clear Prisons, Lesson for America by Jeff Rosen
We need to talk about an injustice by Bryan Stevenson
YouTube
Just Mercy: Race and the Criminal Justice System by Bryan Stevenson