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True Crime Bookshelf: Corrections & Capital Punishment

The list below consists of prison memoir, the stories of corrections officers, and the debate over the death penalty.

Jailed and Jailors

This section is organized by author.

Jack Henry Abbott

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  • In the Belly of the Beast, 1981

Mumia Abu-Jamal

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  • Live from Death Row, 1995

Jeremy Bentham

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  • Panopticon Writings, c. 1785

Edward Bunker

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  • Education of a Felon, 2000

Donald A. Cabana

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  • Death at Midnight: THe Confessions of an Executioner, 1996

James Carr

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  • Bad, The Autobiography of James Carr, 1975

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter

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  • The Sixteenth Round, 1974

James Clavell

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  • King Rat, 1962

Ted Conover

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  • Newjack, Guarding Sing Sing, 2000

David von Drehle

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  • Among the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture of Death Row


Pete Earley

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  • The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison

A 1992 chronicle of life inside America's oldest maximum security prison, Leavenworth Penitentiary, Kansas.

Edward 'Hacksaw' Jones

    book titles
  • Hacksaw, by Edward R. Jones


Dannie 'Red Hog' Martin

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  • Committing Journalism, 1993

Helen Prejean, C.S.J.

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  • Dead Man Walking, 1993

Stephen Trombley

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  • The Execution Protocol: Inside America's Capital Punishment Industry, 1992

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