Center for Community Alternatives Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Working for restorative justice and an end to mass criminalization and mass incarceration. Advocacy, organizing, and direct services across New York State.

Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration
Thomas Brothers
"Our goal is to get the NY criminal justice system to start investing in #CommunitiesNotCages. We need to bring our families home. I'm trying to help my brothers and sisters who got left behind." - Thomas Gant, @CCA_NY member https://t.co/eRAVRcfHrB
Paperback, 2019
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Civil Resource Manual: 2019
Department of Justice
PRESS STATEMENT: Today, the Department of Criminal Justice Services released new data on bail reform covering 2019 - 2021, demonstrating the effectiveness of bail reform and directly disproving the rampant misinformation spread by political opponents. Our response: https://t.co/4YMWIWs5xq
Paperback, 2019
$44.98$22.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Deireadh: End
Thomas Long
WATCH: CCA member Kerry says the Second Look Act would allow people who served long sentences like her husband Thomas to be "reviewed for the person that are today, which would change the culture and be more rehabilitative and transformative in the end." https://t.co/TyE6WUCrcL
Paperback, 2018
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book