Carceral Country Reading List
CARCERAL COUNTRY READING LIST
This page is an ingoing list of organizations, articles, and resources on social justice issues around policing, incerceration, and the carceral state. Additional books are below. Links to books by the authors participating in our Carceral Country program are listed with their events. Feel free to send us suggestions for additions to this list at scuppernongbooks@gmail.com
Articles
A Guide for Reading and Writing about Crime by Alec Karakatsanis
In the Aftermath of a Police Killing, the Justifications Begin Immediately
Los Angeles is Creating a Model to Fight Mass Incarceration
The Richard Glossip Death Penalty Case
Organizations
Leaders in high-impact litigation and landmark advocacy that empowers communities to change the unjust legal system.
North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence
North Carolina Innocence Project
Working to dismantle the prison industrial complex and end the exploitation of those it touches.
Some of the best reporting on crminal justice in the South, often by incarcerated journalists, appears here.
PEN America Prison and Justice Writing Project
By providing resources, mentorship, and audiences outside the walls, this program helps incarcerated writers to join and enrich the broader literary community.
Fighting to End Immigrant Detention
Fighting for a Future Beyond Deportation
