Inspiring Prison Memoirs

The thought of prison conjures images of stark and brutal conditions, but prison sentences have also yielded inspiring stories of faith, redemption and hope. Get a glimpse of this world from authors who have lived it.

Cover of When Truth is All You Have: A Memoir of Faith, Justice, and Freedom for the Wrongly Convicted

Cover of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison

Cover of Getting Life: An Innocent Man’s 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace

Cover of Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul

Cover of Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice

Cover of Ghost of an Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption

Cover of The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

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When Truth is All You Have: A Memoir of Faith, Justice, and Freedom for the Wrongly Convicted

When Truth is All You Have: A Memoir of Faith, Justice, and Freedom for the Wrongly Convicted

Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison

Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison

Conversations with Myself

Conversations with Myself

Getting Life: An Innocent Man’s 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace

Getting Life: An Innocent Man’s 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace

Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul

Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul

Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice

Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice

Ghost of an Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption

Ghost of an Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row