Research Resources for BEJI: A Curated List
Readings
Journalism and Podcasts
- The Marshall Project (non-profit journalism about criminal justice)
- Earhustle
Legal Analysis/Scholarship
- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (Brandeis Students can read online for free through the Brandeis library)
- Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law
- Brandon L. Garrett, Convicting the Innocent
- Elizabeth Hinton, From The War on Poverty to the War on Crime
- The Prison Policy Initiative (Data analysis and advocacy)
Archives and Oral Histories
- The Visiting Room Project
- American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside
- Robin Levi and Ayelet Waldman, eds., Inside This Place, Not Of It: Narratives from Women’s Prison
On Prison Education
- Mneesha Gelman, ed., Education Behind the Wall
- Sheila Smith McKoy and Patrick Elliot Alexander, Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons
- Caits Meissner, ed., The Sentences that Create Us
Films
- Brett Story, dir., The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (documentary)
- Traci Curry and Stanley Nelson, dirs., Attica (documentary)
- James Burns, dir., “The Box: Minds Lost in Solitary Confinement” (short documentary)
- 13th (documentary)