Bibliography and Suggested Reading

Bibliography of exhibit (August 2018)

• Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Rev. ed. New York: New Press, 2012.
• Amiri, Nushabah, and Houshang Asadi. Six Lines from Prison: Letters of Nooshabeh Amiri and Houshang Asadi. Sweden: Dracopis Press, 2013.
• Anonimo. Letter from T. Don Hutto Detention Center. Taylor, TX: June, 19, 2018.
• Arriens, Jan. Welcome to Hell: Letters & Writings from Death Row. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.
• Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Letters and Papers from Prison. Translation of Widerstand und Ergebung. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
• Canku, Clifford and Michael Simon. The Dakota Prisoner of War Letters: Dakota Kaŝkapi Okicize Wowapi. Introduction and afterward by John Peacock. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2013.
• Casey, John S. A Mingling of Swans: A Cork Fenian and Friends “visit” Australia. Edited by Mairead Maume, Patrick Maume and Mary Casey. Classics of Irish History. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2010.
• Eng, Mercedes. Prison Industrial Complex Explodes: A Poem. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Talonbooks, 2017.
• Johnson, Kevin Rashid. Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin “Rashid” Johnson: Featuring Exchanges with an Outlaw. Montreal, Quebec: Kersplebedeb, 2010.
• Kathrada, A. M. Letters from Robben Island: A Selection of Ahmed Kathrada’s Prison Correspondence, 1964-1989. Edited by Robert Vassen. Forward by Nelson Mandela. Introduction by Walter Sisulu. Cape Town, South Africa: Mayibuye Books in association with the Robben Island Museum, 1999.
• Kim, Song-man. Enduring the Darkness: A Story of Conscience, Hope, and Triumph: Letters from Kim Song-Man, an Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience in South Korea, 1985 to 15 August, 1998. Edited by Drake Zimmerman and Ruth Cobb. Normal, IL: Amnesty International Adoption Group 202, 2000.
• More, Thomas. The Last Letters of Thomas More. Edited and Introduction by Alvaro. De Silva. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 2000.
• Pussy Riot (Musical group). Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer for Freedom: Letters from Prison, Songs, Poems, and Courtroom Statements, plus Tributes to the Punk Band That Shook the World. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2012.
• Rao, Varavara. Captive Imagination: Letters from Prison. Translated by Vasantha Kannabiran, et al. Forward by Ngugi wa Thiong’o. New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2010.
• Rieder, Jonathan. Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
• Rosenberg, Julius, and Ethel Rosenberg. The Rosenberg Letters: A Complete Edition of the Prison Correspondence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Edited by Michael Meeropol. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 1184. New York: Garland, 1994.
• Suttner, Raymond. Inside Apartheid’s Prison: Notes and Letters of Struggle. Melbourne: Ocean Press, 2001.
• Vega, Christopher. Personal letters written by Christopher Vega to his family. 2007-2018.
• Wilde, Oscar. The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde. Edited by Nicholas Frankel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
• Wituska, Krystyna. I Am First a Human Being: The Prison Letters of Krystyna Wituska. Edited and translated by Irene Tomaszewski. Montréal: Véhicule Press, 1997.
  

Suggested Reading (last updated January 3, 2025)

Letters & Memoirs

• Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience. Expanded edition. Forward and Preface by Cornel West, and Julia Wright. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2020.
• American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside (collection of American Prison newspapers in JSTOR).
• An, Chung-gŭn. An Chunggŭn: His Life and Thought in His Own Words. Compiled and translated by Jieun Han and Franklin Rausch. Boston: Brill, 2020.
• Blanc, Olivier. Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of the French Revolution, 1793-1794. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1987.
• Casteel, Joshua. Letters from Abu Ghraib. Second edition. Edited by Joseph Clair and Kristi Casteel. Eugene, Oregon: CASCADE Books, 2017.
• Hersri Setiawan. Buru Island: A Prison Memoir. Translated by Jennifer Lindsay. Victoria, Australia: Monash University Publishing, 2020.
• Formakov, Arseniĭ. Gulag Letters. Editied and Translated by Emily D. Johnson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.
• Hamilton, Lacino. In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom. Minneapolis: Broadleaf Books, 2023.
• Jackson, George. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1994.
• King, Martin Luther, Jr. Letter From Birmingham Jail. Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1968.
• Kitchen, Ronald with Thai Jones and Logan M. McBride. My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge’s Police Torture Ring and Death Row. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2018.
• Melville, Samuel. Letters from Attica. Fiftieth anniversary annotated edition. Edited by Joshua Melville. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2022.
• Mirabal, Minerva. and Minou Tavárez Mirabal. The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez: Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo. Translated by Heather Hennes. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2022.
• Moltke, Dorothy von, Freya von and Helmuth James von. Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence, September 1944-January 1945. New York: New York Review Books, 2019.
• Navalny, Alexei. Patriot: A Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
• Peterson, Marlon. Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song. New York: Bold Type Books, 2021.
• Shakur, Assata. Assata: An Autobiography. Westport, CT: L. Hill, 1987.
• Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso and Derek Hook. Lie on Your Wounds: The Prison Correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2019.

Scholarship & Reports

• Burton, Susan and Cari Lynn. Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women. Forward by Michelle Alexander. New York: New Press, 2017.
• Cook, Sandy, and Susanne Davies. Harsh Punishment: International Experiences of Women's Imprisonment. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999.
• Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
• Gottschalk, Marie. Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.
• Gottschalk, Marie. The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Griffith, Lee. The Fall of the Prison: Biblical Perspectives on Prison Abolition. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1993.
• Kilgore, James William. Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time. New York: The New Press, 2015.
• Liem, Marieke, and Robert J. Sampson. After Life Imprisonment: Reentry in the Era of Mass Incarceration. New York: New York University Press, 2016.
• Lydon, Jason with Kamaria Carrington, Hana Low, Reed Miller, and Mahsa Yazdy. "Coming Out of Concrete Closets: A Report on Black & Pink's National LGBTQ Prisoner Survey," Black & Pink, October 2015.
• Pager, Devah. Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
• Pattillo, Mary E, David F. Weiman, and Bruce Western. Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.
• Reiter, Keramet. Mass Incarceration. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
• Wang, Jackie. Carceral Capitalism. Semiotext(e) Intervention Series, 21. South Pasadena, CA: Semiotext(e); Cambridge: MIT Press, 2018.