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    • 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 3,939 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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    • 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 710 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 91 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 403 ratings
    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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    • 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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    • The Terrible True Story of Louisa Collins
    • By: Caroline Overington
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a mother of 10 children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands had died suddenly and the Crown, convinced that Louisa poisoned them with arsenic, put her on trial....

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    • The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
    • By: Heather Ann Thompson
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 22 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 694 ratings
    • On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment....

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    • 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 577 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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    • 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 484 ratings
    • Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is the story of Ted Conover's rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing....

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    • A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
    • By: Neal Bascomb
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Neal Bascomb, a New York Times best-selling author, delivers the spellbinding story of the downed Allied airmen who masterminded the remarkably courageous - and ingenious - breakout from Germany's most devilish POW camp....

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    • 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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