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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 3,938 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 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 705 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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  • 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 417 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 88 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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  • 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 91 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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  • 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 481 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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  • 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 15 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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  • 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 497 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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  • 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 461 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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  • 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 145 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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  • Rikers Audiobook By Graham Rayman, Reuven Blau cover art

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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 576 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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  • Corrections in Ink Audiobook By Keri Blakinger cover art

    • Corrections in Ink

    • A Memoir
    • By: Keri Blakinger
    • Narrated by: Keri Blakinger
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings

    • In this electric and unforgettable memoir, Keri Blakinger shares her journey from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom—and tells how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced.

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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 1,044 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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  • 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 out of 5 stars 5 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 40 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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  • Newjack Audiobook By Ted Conover cover art

    • Newjack

    • Guarding Sing Sing
    • By: Ted Conover
    • Narrated by: Ted Conover
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 483 ratings
    • Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is the story of Ted Conover's rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing....

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  • No Human Contact Audiobook By Pete Earley cover art

    • No Human Contact

    • Solitary Confinement, Maximum Security, and Two Inmates Who Changed the System
    • By: Pete Earley
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • In 1983, Thomas Silverstein and Clayton Fountain, both serving life sentences at the U.S. Prison in Marion, Illinois, separately murdered two correction officers on the same day. The Bureau of Prisons condemned both men to the severest punishment that could legally be imposed....

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  • Writing My Wrongs Audiobook By Shaka Senghor cover art

    • Writing My Wrongs

    • Life, Death, and One Man's Story of Redemption in an American Prison
    • By: Shaka Senghor
    • Narrated by: Shaka Senghor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 944 ratings

    • Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle-class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An honor roll student and a natural leader, he dreamed of becoming a doctor—but at age eleven, his parents’ marriage began to unravel....

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