Start with high-confidence criminal sentencing books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Black Hand
Chris Blatchford
Hunting Whitey
Casey Sherman, Dave Wedge
False Claims
Lisa Pratta
The Letter From Prison
W. Clark Gilpin
The Devil's Harvest
Jessica Garrison, Frankie Corzo
Charged
Cassandra Campbell, Emily Bazelon
Doing Justice
Preet Bharara, Random House Audio
Bringing Ben Home
Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan
"prisons Make US Safer"
Victoria Law
Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free
Jed S Rakoff
The Man I Was Destined to Be
Michael Tandoi
Justice in the Balance
Jessica Greenberg
Punishment Without Crime
Alexandra Natapoff
Bleeding Out
Thomas Abt, Brad Raymond
Incarceration Nations
Baz Dreisinger
The Long Term
Alice Kim, Erica Meiners
The People's Justice
Amul Thapar
Rattling the Cages
Angela Y. Davis - foreword, Sara Falconer - introduction
