The below booklist includes some great books, both true stories, fiction, and fact-based resource guides that anyone starting out as a correctional officer should own to offer you a new and different perspective on the various things that you may encounter and what others in the past have lived through as a corrections officer.

So if you have some free time and want to spend it with some good reading material, then check out some of the great books listed below. Additionally, if you are studying for your correctional officer test, you can click here for our list of the top correctional officer exam study guides.

COVER	TITLE	FORMAT	e-Book AVAILABLE	RATING
	Doing Time Eight Hours a Day: Memoirs of a Correctional Officer	Paperback, Hardcover	Kindle
	The Art of the Con: Avoiding Offender Manipulation	Paperback	No
	Gates of Injustice: The Crisis in America's Prisons	Paperback, Hardcover	Kindle
	Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing	Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Book	Kindle, iTunes
	Correction Officer's Guide to Understanding Inmates: The 44 Keys to Power, Control, and Respect (Volume 1)	Paperback	No
	Warden: Texas Prison Life and Death from the Inside Out	Hardcover	No
	Games Criminals Play: How You Can Profit by Knowing Them	Hardcover	No
	The Largest Hotel Chain in Texas: Texas Prisons	Paperback	No
	Colditz: The Definitive History: The Untold Story of World War II's Great Escapes	Paperback, Hardcover	No
	The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison	Paperback, Hardcover	Kindle, iTunes
	Governing Prisons	Paperback, Hardcover	No
	Resolution of Prison Riots: Strategies and Policies	Hardcover	Kindle
	Correctional Officer Resource Guide	Paperback	No
	American Corrections	Paperback, Hardcover	Kindle
	Inside: Life Behind Bars in America	Paperback, Hardcover	Kindle, iTunes