Prisons books

1391 books were found.

Recidivism in the Caribbean: Improving the Reintegration of Jamaican Ex-prisoners

Recidivism in the Caribbean: Improving the Reintegration...

Author: Dacia L. Leslie
ISBN: 9783030129064
Format: Hardback
$116.41

It uses various methods to seek the authentic voices of inmates, ex-prisoners, deported migrants and practitioners,...  Read More >>

Justice Makes a Killing

Justice Makes a Killing

Author: Ed Rucker
ISBN: 9781732913905
Format: Paperback
$34.29

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Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America

Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America...

Author: Anthony Ryan Hatch ,  Anthony Ryan Hatch
ISBN: 9781517907440
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in...  Read More >>

Prison Reform

Prison Reform

Author: Aaron Guylas
ISBN: 9781642650389
Format: Hardback
$473.00

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Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America

Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America...

Author: Anthony Ryan Hatch ,  Anthony Ryan Hatch
ISBN: 9781517907433
Format: Hardback
$145.00

A critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in...  Read More >>

Life and Death in Rikers Island

Life and Death in Rikers Island

Author: Homer Venters (Chief Medical Officer, NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, Correctional Health Services)
ISBN: 9781421427355
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This revelatory and groundbreaking book concludes with the author's analysis of the case for closing Rikers Island...  Read More >>

A Bootcamp for Criminals: Inside the Criminal Justice System in America

A Bootcamp for Criminals: Inside the Criminal Justice...

Author: Noreen Hermans Eiss
ISBN: 9781527532274
Format: Hardback
$263.87

In America's criminal justice system, despite the assumption of innocence until one is proved guilty, the accused...  Read More >>

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection)

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

Author: Anthony Ray Hinton
ISBN: 9781846045745
Format: Paperback
$22.99

**WINNER OF THE 2019 MOORE PRIZE ** **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** ‘A riveting account of the multiple outrages...  Read More >>

Seen & Heard: 100 Poems by Parents & Children Affected by Imprisonment

Seen & Heard: 100 Poems by Parents & Children Affected...

Author: Lucy Baldwin ,  Ben Raikes
ISBN: 9781909976429
Format: Paperback
$38.68

A collection of poems and drawings by parents and children affected by imprisonment in the UK and abroad.  Read More >>

Correction Officer Exam Prep: Practice Tests + Proven Strategies

Correction Officer Exam Prep: Practice Tests + Proven...

Author: Kaplan Test Prep
ISBN: 9781506246116
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America

Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal...

Author: Brett Story ,  Brett Story
ISBN: 9781517906887
Format: Paperback
$29.99

BrettStory investigates the production of carceral power at a range of sites, frombuses to coalfields and from blighted...  Read More >>

Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America

Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal...

Author: Brett Story ,  Brett Story
ISBN: 9781517906870
Format: Hardback
$189.47

From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral...  Read More >>

About Dartmoor Prison

About Dartmoor Prison

Author: Trevor James
ISBN: 9781898964483
Format: Paperback
$12.91

There has been a prison on Dartmoor for over two hundred years. Built to house French and American Prisoners of...  Read More >>

I Will Never See the World Again

I Will Never See the World Again

Author: Yasemin Çongar ,  Ahmet Altan
ISBN: 9781783785155
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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The Napoleonic Prison of Norman Cross: The Lost Town of Huntingdonshire

The Napoleonic Prison of Norman Cross: The Lost Town...

Author: Paul Chamberlain ,  Dr Francis Pryor
ISBN: 9780750990462
Format: Paperback
$37.99

The human story of Cambridgeshire’s Napoleonic War prison  Read More >>

Bureau of Prisons: Risk and Needs Assessment to Reduce Recidivism

Bureau of Prisons: Risk and Needs Assessment to Reduce...

Author: Rachel Rowe
ISBN: 9781536151282
Format: Paperback
$219.91

The number of people incarcerated in federal prisons increased dramatically over the past three decades. While research...  Read More >>

Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement

Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement

Author: Robert J. Norris
ISBN: 9781479821990
Format: Paperback
$60.99

The fascinating story behind the innocence movement's quest for justice. Documentaries like Making a Murderer,...  Read More >>

An American Marriage: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2019

An American Marriage: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR...

Author: Tayari Jones
ISBN: 9781786075192
Format: Paperback
$25.85

The stunning and heart-breaking New York Times bestseller  Read More >>

The Seventh Circle: A former Australian soldier's extraordinary story of surviving seven years in Afghanistan's most notorious prison

The Seventh Circle: A former Australian soldier's extraordinary...

Author: Rob Langdon
ISBN: 9781760527433
Format: Paperback
$24.99

In the tradition of Midnight Express, The Damage Done, Marching Powder and Hotel Kerobokan comes an extraordinary...  Read More >>

Killing Time: Life Imprisonment and Parole in Ireland

Killing Time: Life Imprisonment and Parole in Ireland...

Author: Diarmuid Griffin
ISBN: 9783030102463
Format: Paperback
$258.72

With reform of parole now on the political agenda, will a more formal process of release operate toconstrain the...  Read More >>

Light Through the Bars: Understanding And Rethinking South Africa's Prisons

Light Through the Bars: Understanding And Rethinking...

Author: Babychan Arackathara
ISBN: 9781928230687
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Lock them up and throw away the key! - a cry we hear often today. Ordinary South Africans have reeled from a ceaseless...  Read More >>

The New Debtors' Prison: Why All Americans Are in Danger of Losing Their Freedom

The New Debtors' Prison: Why All Americans Are in Danger...

Author: Christopher B. Maselli ,  Paul Lonardo
ISBN: 9781510733251
Format: Hardback
$44.99

The truth about the US prison system that unfairly incarcerates, disenfranchises, and destroys the poor and middle...  Read More >>

Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America

Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century...

Author: Alison Griffiths
ISBN: 9780231161077
Format: Paperback
$49.95

A groundbreaking contribution to the study of non-theatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the story...  Read More >>

Gaol Hawk: Forged in Sheffield

Gaol Hawk: Forged in Sheffield

Author: Rob Brenton
ISBN: 9781912543045
Format: Paperback
$25.75

Hillsborough 1960 and a new breed of criminal, Clyde Broughton, is born into the `'Steel City'.  Read More >>

Young Men’s Experiences of Long-Term Imprisonment: Living Life

Young Men’s Experiences of Long-Term Imprisonment: Living...

Author: Rachel Tynan
ISBN: 9781138632394
Format: Hardback
$284.00

An insightful ethnographic study on imprisoned 15-17-year-olds in England, this volume examines how young people...  Read More >>

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