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  • The Innocent Man Audiobook By John Grisham cover art

    • The Innocent Man

    • Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
    • By: John Grisham
    • Narrated by: Craig Wasson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,909 ratings

    • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence....

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  • The Sun Does Shine Audiobook By Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin, Bryan Stevenson - foreword cover art

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  • Prisoners of the Castle Audiobook By Ben Macintyre cover art

    • Prisoners of the Castle

    • An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 410 ratings

    • In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners.

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  • The Sing Sing Files Audiobook By Dan Slepian cover art

    • The Sing Sing Files

    • One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
    • By: Dan Slepian
    • Narrated by: Dan Slepian
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings

    • Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC’s Dateline recounts his two-decade journey navigating the broken criminal justice system to help free six innocent men.

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  • American Prison Audiobook By Shane Bauer cover art

    • American Prison

    • A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
    • By: Shane Bauer
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,043 ratings

    • After working as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison, Shane Bauer wrote an exposé about his experiences. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America....

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  • Discipline & Punish Audiobook By Michel Foucault cover art

    • Discipline & Punish

    • The Birth of the Prison
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 480 ratings
    • This groundbreaking audiobook by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West....

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  • Are Prisons Obsolete? Audiobook By Angela Y. Davis cover art

    • Are Prisons Obsolete?

    • By: Angela Y. Davis
    • Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings

    • With her characteristic brilliance, grace, and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration," and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole....

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  • Orange Is the New Black Audiobook By Piper Kerman cover art

    • Orange Is the New Black

    • My Year in a Women's Prison
    • By: Piper Kerman
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 455 ratings

    • With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money 10 years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to 15 months at an infamous federal correctional facility....

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  • Captive in Iran Audiobook By Maryam Rostampour, Marziyeh Amirizadeh, John Perry cover art

    • Captive in Iran

    • A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison
    • By: Maryam Rostampour, Marziyeh Amirizadeh, John Perry
    • Narrated by: Patty Fogarty
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 496 ratings
    • In Captive in Iran, Maryam and Marziyeh recount their 259 days in Evin. It’s an amazing story of unyielding faith - when denying God would have meant freedom....

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  • Doing Time Like a Spy Audiobook By John Kiriakou cover art

    • Doing Time Like a Spy

    • How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison
    • By: John Kiriakou
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings

    • On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a 30 month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners....

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  • The Highest Law in the Land Audiobook By Jessica Pishko cover art

    • The Highest Law in the Land

    • How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy
    • By: Jessica Pishko
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • A leading authority on sheriffs in America investigates the impunity with which sheriffs police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly, national politics....

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  • A Hidden History of The Tower of London Audiobook By John Paul Davis cover art

    • A Hidden History of The Tower of London

    • England’s Most Notorious Prisoners
    • By: John Paul Davis
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings

    • Famed as the ultimate penalty for traitors, heretics, and royalty alike, being sent to the Tower is known to have been experienced by no less than 8,000 unfortunate souls....

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  • Rikers Audiobook By Graham Rayman, Reuven Blau cover art

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  • Getting Life Audiobook By Michael Morton cover art

    • Getting Life

    • An Innocent Man’s 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace
    • By: Michael Morton
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • On August 13, 1986, just one day after his 32nd birthday, Michael Morton went to work at his usual time. By the end of the day, his wife Christine had been savagely bludgeoned....

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  • Correction Audiobook By Ben Austen cover art

    • Correction

    • Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change
    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Brett Barry
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • The United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world’s incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichés—paying a debt to society; you do the crime, you do the time—there is little sense collectively in America what constitutes retribution or atonement. We don’t actually know why we punish....

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  • Solitary Audiobook By Albert Woodfox cover art

    • Solitary

    • Unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope.
    • By: Albert Woodfox
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 574 ratings

    • Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement - in a six-foot by nine-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana - all for a crime he did not commit....

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  • The Faithful Executioner Audiobook By Joel F. Harrington cover art

    • The Faithful Executioner

    • Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
    • By: Joel F. Harrington
    • Narrated by: James Gillies
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 686 ratings
    • In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington vividly re-creates a life filled with stark contrasts, from the young apprentice's rigorous training under his executioner father....

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  • From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime Audiobook By Elizabeth Hinton cover art

    • From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

    • The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
    • By: Elizabeth Hinton
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....

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  • Blood in the Water Audiobook By Heather Ann Thompson cover art

    • Blood in the Water

    • The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
    • By: Heather Ann Thompson
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 22 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 693 ratings
    • On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment....

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  • Damnation Island Audiobook By Stacy Horn cover art

    • Damnation Island

    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 400 ratings

    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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