Books
Children of Incarcerated Parents edited by J. Mark Eddy and Julie Poehmann
Doing Time on the Outside by Donald Braman
Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation by Joseph Hallinan
Library Services to the Incarcerated by Sheila Clark and Erica MacCreaight
Literacy: A Way Out for At-Risk Youth by Jennifer Sweeney
Making Good by Shadd Maruna
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Prison Library Primer by Brenda Vogel
Public Library Services for the Poor by Leslie Edmonds Holt and Glen E. Holt
Reading is My Window by Megan Sweeney
What will happen to me? by Howard Zehr
Online Resources
Beyond Books: Restorative Librarianship in Juvenile Detention Centers by Isaac Gilman
Colorado Department of Education Prison Libraries
Hennepin County Library Freedom Ticket
Library Service to Prisoners Forum (ASCLA)
Library Services for Youth in Custody
Libraries, Literacy, and Juvenile Correctional Facilities
Partnering with Jails to Improve Reentry: A Guidebook for Community-Based Organizations (Urban Institute)
Prison Librarian – Glennor Shirley’s blog
prison-l (ALA)
Urban Institute – Prisoner Reentry
YALSA Lockdown (ALA)