1. Upper Bunkies Unite and Other Thoughts on the Politics of Mass Incarceration by Andrea C. James

James wrote Upper Bunkies Unite while incarcerated in Danbury, Connecticut, where Kerman also served her sentence. James's title refers to prison bed assignments:

At Danbury, if you're fifty or older, you get an automatic pass to sleep in the lower bunk and you are known as a lower bunkie. I always wanted to know how did they pick that number. Let me tell you, when it comes to climbing in and out of an upper bunk, there's no difference between 45 and 60. But, unless you can get a pass for health reasons, you become an upper bunkie.