Thanks a lot for your thoughts! Sorry I missed your hello-there post yesterday :(
By all means, share your prison reading list. I've never been to jail - I've never even had a ticket outside of parking tickets - but the aggressiveness of the prosecutorial State has had me wondering if I'll be thrown into jail someday. At first guess, for something like offending a border guard or airport authority.
(That said, I don't dislike cops. As the recent attacks on police have demonstrated, the folks in blue face a Mexican standoff in the rougher areas. The whole law-enforcement thingie is a mess, but I don't see any elegant way out of it so I peg it as tragic.)