Resources
Books
Chaplaincy
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Correctional Chaplains: Keepers of the Cloak | W. Thomas Beckner |
| The Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work | Cheryl A. Giles, Willa B. Miller, eds. |
| My Search for Ancient Wisdom: One Prisoner’s Journey of Transformation | Michael Nichols |
Fiction
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Chain-Gang All Stars | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah |
| The Mars Room: A Novel | Rachel Kushner |
History
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy | Heather Ann Thompson |
| Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison | Michel Foucault |
| Letters From Attica | Sam Melville |
| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness | Michelle Alexander |
Justice & Liberation
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Abolition. Feminism. Now. | Angela Davis and others |
| Are Prisons Obsolete? | Angela Y. Davis |
| Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition | Ruth Wilson Gilmore |
| We Do This Till We Free Us | Mariame Kaba |
| WEology: transformative justice behind prison walls | Qu’eed Batts, Avron “JaJa” Holland, David “Dawud” Lee,Nyako Pippen |
Meditation & Buddhist Practice
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull | Fleet Maull |
| Finding Freedom: How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart | Jarvis Jay Masters |
| Finding the Still Point: A Beginner's Guide to Zen Meditation | John Daido Loori |
| Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State | Farah Godrej |
| Razor-Wire Dharma: A Buddhist Life in Prison | Calvin Malone |
| Sitting Inside: Buddhist Practice in America’s Prisons | Kobai Scott Whitney |
| The Buddha in Jail: Restoring Lives, Finding Hope and Freedom | Cuong Lu |
| The Buddhist on Death Row | David Sheff |
| The Petunias Are Doing Amazing: A Prison Journal and Plant Care | Pema Bennett |
Memoir
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir | John Edgar Wideman |
| Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family | Mitchell S. Jackson |
Poetry
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Black Voices from Prison | Etheridge Knight |
| Felon | Reginald Dwayne Betts |
| Poems from Prison | Etheridge Knight |
| To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight | Terrance Hayes |
Reentry
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change | Ben Austen |
| Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration | Reuben Jonathan Miller |
| The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose | Chris Wilson |
Wrongful Conviction
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Fighting Time | Amy Banks, Isaac Knapper |
| Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption | Bryan Stevenson |