african american prisoners

In 1991, Shaka Senghor was sent to prison for second-degree murder. Today he is a lecturer at universities, a leading voice on criminal justice reform, and an inspiration to thousands. As he says "In life, it's not how you start that matters. It's how you finish.".

Argues that mass incarceration of African- and Latino Americans in the United States is a form of social control, and contends the civil rights community needs to become more active in protecting the rights of criminals.

Tells the history of the Bosket family and how the pattern of violence that has followed them for generations had its roots in the rural South in slavery days. Focuses on Butch, the only person to earn a Ph.D. in prison, and his son, Willie, a murderer with a genius level IQ.

Chester Hines, a big, bad man on the street, faces a big comedown when he is thrown in prison.

Seventeen-year-old Antonio and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Natasha, find their love tested when Antonio is wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit.

Describes the "Age of Neoslavery" in the U.S., a period between the Civil War and World War II during which tens of thousands of African-Americans were arbitrarily arrested and forced into labor to pay inordinately large fines.

Magazine columnist Shemone Waters is right on track with her ten-year plan for success, but she is thrown off course when Darnell Williams, a high school friend who spent several years in prison, returns home looking for love.

Seventeen-year-old Antonio and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Natasha, find their love tested when Antonio is wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit.

The author, imprisoned on Death Row since 1981, describes life in prison, warning young readers not to make the mistakes he made.