Bibliography and Suggested Reading
Bibliography of exhibit
- American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside (collection of American Prison newspapers in JSTOR)
- 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.
- More, Thomas. The Last Letters of Thomas More. Edited and Introduction by Alvaro. De Silva. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 2000.
- 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.
- 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
- Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Rev. ed. New York: New Press, 2012.
- 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; London: New Press, 2017.
- Cook, Sandy, and Susanne Davies. Harsh Punishment: International Experiences of Women's Imprisonment. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999.
- Gottschalk, Marie. Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2016.
- Gottschalk, Marie. The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America. Cambridge Studies in Criminology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Griffith, Lee. The Fall of the Prison: Biblical Perspectives on Prison Abolition. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 1993.
- Jackson, George. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books : Distributed by Independent Publishers Group, 1994.
- 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.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr. Letter From Birmingham Jail. Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1968.
- Kitchen, Ronald, Thai Jones, and Logan M. McBride. My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge’s Police Torture Ring and Death Row. Chicago, Illinois: Lawrence Hill Books, 2018.
- 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.
- Shakur, Assata. Assata: An Autobiography. Westport, Conn.: L. Hill, 1987.
- Wang, Jackie. Carceral Capitalism. Semiotext(e) Intervention Series, 21. South Pasadena, CA: Semiotext(e); Cambridge: MIT Press, 2018.