Helpful Resources

Suggested Readings

Books:

• Life Sentence, by Charles Colson
• Golden Gulag, by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
• Shane Claiborne, Executing Grace
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stephenson
• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
• The Little Book on Restorative Justice by Howard Zehr
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Punishment- Richard Snyder
• The Little Book on Biblical Justice by Christopher Marshall
• International Institute on Restorative Practice the Restorative Practices Handbook
• Redeeming a Prison Society: A Liturgical and Sacramental Response to Mass Incarceration by Amy Levad
• The Heart of Hope (a guide for making peacemaking circles) : Kay Pranis

Articles/Blog Posts:

• Interrupting the School to Prison Pipeline Through Restorative Justice  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fania-e-davis/interrupting-the-school-t_b_8244864.html
• Divine Justice as Restorative Justice https://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/163072.pdf
• The Biblical Case for Restorative Justice:  https://peacetheology.net/pacifism/biblical-bases-for-restorative-justice/
• This Country Needs a Truth and Reconciliation Process on Violence Against African Americans—Right Now
  http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/this-country-needs-a-truth-and-reconciliation-process-on-violence-against-african-americans
• From Slavery to Mass Incarceration (Equal Justice Initiative video): https://youtu.be/r4e_djVSag4
• The Moral Failures of America’s Prison Industrial Complex: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/07/criminal-justice-and-mass-incarceration
• Mass Incarceration Since 1492: Native American Encounters With Criminal Injustice: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34725-mass-incarceration-since-1492-native-american-encounters-with-criminal-injustice
• A Christian Case for ending the War on Drugs: http://www.relevantmagazine.com/current/christian-case-ending-war drugs#HVJmdo5kAJMfVgKK.01
  The Wages of Sin are Prison: http://www.ecclesio.com/2011/06/the-wages-of-sin%E2%80%A6-are-prison-by-elizabeth-m-bounds/
• Christianity and U.S. Prison Abolition: http://marklewistaylor.net/blog/christianity-and-us-prison-abolition-rupturing-a-hegemonic-christian-ideology/
• Jails as Warehouses for the Poor, Ill, and Addicted: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/us/jails-have-become-warehouses-for-the-poor-ill-and-addicted-a-report-says.html?_r=1
• Due Process Is Dead: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/due-process-dead-staggering-95-inmates-america-received-trial/

Films/documentaries:

• The House I live In
• Tulia Texas
• American Violet
• Kids For Cash
• 13th