Prison by Any Other Name

When I read "Prison By Any Other Name" last July, I knew that it was one of the most important books of 2020. In fact, if you read only one work of nonfiction this year, please consider this brilliant exploration of "alternatives" to policing and incarceration! It's a meticulously researched exploration of popular reforms that centers the stories of real people to craft a highly readable but utterly devastating critique. Importantly, it also offers transformative, community-based solutions.

I want to buy this book for everyone I know. This is a book to hand to everyone who asks, but if not police then what. I really cannot emphasize enough how important it is that we don't allow ourselves to be sucked into "alternatives" to prison that are really more of the same.