Prisons books

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

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

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

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

From the confines of his prison cell in Istanbul, one of Turkey's greatest living novelists reflects upon hope,...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This book offers a sustained study of on one feature of a prison officer’s job: ‘doing’ coercion. Adopting an interactionist...  Read More >>

Love your Prison Officer ? Express it Blank Lined professional jobs, hobby, passion or part time, love and Romance...  Read More >>

This book explores the dramatic evolution of a feminist movement that mobilised to challenge a women’s prison system...  Read More >>

This special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, edited by Andreas Aresti and Sacha Darke, marks the 20th...  Read More >>

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The """"deadlines"""" were boundaries prisoners had to stay within or risk being shot. Just as a prisoner would...  Read More >>

This book examines how the prison environment, architecture and culture can affect mental health as well as determine...  Read More >>

This book challenges the centrality of the prison in our understanding of punishment, inviting us to see, hear,...  Read More >>