• College Behind Bars: a documentary about the Bard Prison Initiative, a bachelor’s degree-granting program for people who are incarcerated, and how their debate team beat Harvard’s

• Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Davis

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander

• Race to Incarcerate, by Marc Mauer

• Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling, the above book in graphic novel form, good for teens. By Marc Mauer and Sabrina Jones

• No More Prisons, by William Upski Wimsatt

• Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against The Prison Industrial Complex, by CR10 Publications Collective

• Captive Genders, edited by Eric Stanley and Nat Smith

• Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, by R.W. Gilmore

• Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, by Christian Parenti

• Criminal Injustice: Confronting the Prison Crisis, by Elihu Rosenblatt

• Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, by Victoria Law

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X

• Soledad Brother: the Prison Letters of George Jackson, by George L. Jackson

• Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Prison Abolitionists, by Mike Morris

• Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free US Political Prisoners, by Matt Meyer

• Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement, edited by Dave Marquis and Moira Marquis

Pennsylvania

• www.prisonsociety.org: Pennsylvania Prison Society, advocates on behalf of people in prison and their families

• www.prisonhealth.news: PHN is a Philadelphia-based collective that publishes quarterly zines featuring health information and submissions from incarcerated writers and artists

National

• www.sentencingproject.org: clearinghouse of news and information about incarceration in America

• www.realcostofprisons.org: a national organization working to end mass incarceration. Site includes comics, writing and music “from the inside.”

• www.criticalresistance.org: a movement to end the prison industrial complex by creating healthy, stable communities “that respond to harm without relying on imprisonment and punishment.”

• www.prisonpolicy.org: Prison Policy Initiative, researches and documents the impact of mass incarceration on individuals, communities, and national welfare

• www.bjs.gov: The Federal Bureau of Justice statistics

• www.prisonlegalnews.org: an independent monthly magazine that provides review and analysis of prisoner rights, court rulings and news concerning prison-related issues

• www.prisonactivist.org: Prison Activist Resource Center, a prison abolitionist group

• For a comprehensive list of programs and states that are served, go to www.prisonbookprogram.org/otherprograms.php