Piper Kerman and Victoria Law recommendations
By Freebird Books
By Freebird Books
Piper Kerman is the author of Orange Is the New Black: My Year in Women's Prison, a memoir of her prison experiences, which was adapted into the critically acclaimed Netflix original comedy-drama series. Since leaving prison, Kerman has spoken widely about women in prison and about her own experiences there. She has taught nonfiction writing classes for incarcerated men and women in state prison systems for a number of years.
Victoria Law is a co-founder of Books Through Bars-NYC. She is also a mother, a freelance journalist covering issues of incarceration, gender and resistance, and the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women and co-author of the newly-published Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reform.
They participated in a virtual event discussion on Monday, October 19, 2020, with a focus on why books are of such importance to incarcerated readers.
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
$16.00 $14.88
Recommended by Victoria Law
Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters
Robin Cullen, Dale Griffith, et al.
$17.99 $16.73Recommended by Piper Kerman
The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence
Erica Meiners and Judith Levine
$24.95 $23.20Recommended by Victoria Law
A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
Dwayne Betts
$17.00 $15.81Recommended by Piper Kerman
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
$18.00 $16.74
Recommended by Victoria Law
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Avi Steinberg
$17.00 $15.81Recommended by Piper Kerman
Partial Justice: Women, Prisons and Social Control
Nicole Hahn Rafter
$68.34Recommended by Victoria Law
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California Volume 21
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
$34.74Recommended by Victoria Law
The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom
$19.95 $18.55
Recommended by Victoria Law
The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.
David Carr
$19.99 $18.59Recommended by Piper Kerman
Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
$24.99 $23.24Recommended by Victoria Law
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
Beth E Richie
$34.50Recommended by Victoria Law
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Redemption
Wilbert Rideau
$16.00 $14.88Recommended by Piper Kerman
Returning to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice
Rupert Ross
$22.00 $20.46Recommended by Victoria Law
Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power
Ann Russo
$34.50Recommended by Victoria Law
City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
Kelly Lytle Hernández
$40.19
Love with Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
$20.00 $18.60
Recommended by Victoria Law
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