Resources

Good organizations focusing on criminal justice

Audio/video/resources

Ear Hustle (podcast from San Quentin)

Criminal (podcast hosted by Phoebe Judge)

More Perfect (Radiolab offshoot; see especially "Object Anyway" and "Cruel and Unusual")

College Behind Bars (Lynn Novick and Ken Burns documentary)

Famous Trials (from Douglas Linder, UMKC Law School)

Witness to an Execution (audio from the Texas death house)

Blame (Radiolab episode)

Oyez (archive of the US Supreme Court)

Witness to an Execution (audio from death row in Huntsville, TX)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michele Alexander

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, James Forman Jr.

Chokehold: Policing Black Men, Paul Butler

Guilty People, Abbe Smith

Law Man: Memoir of a Jailhouse Lawyer, Shon Hopwood

The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences, Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis

Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform, John F. Pfaff

Unusually Cruel: Prisons, Punishment, and the Real American Exceptionalism, Marc Howard

Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform, Tommie Shelby

The Idea of Prison Abolition, Tommie Shelby

The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility, Erin Kelly

Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration, Rachel Elise Barkow