Prisons books

Investigates state, national, and international policies on prison libraries, reviews literature on the topic, and...  Read More >>

This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings — composed during and after imprisonment...  Read More >>

James Tooley has been described as a 21st - century Indiana Jones, who travelled to remote villages and slums in...  Read More >>

"""Makes the Shawshank Redemption look like a holiday camp"" - NOTW After a SWAT team smashed down stock-market...  Read More >>

How did the land of the free become the home of the world's largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise...  Read More >>

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Childhood has never been available to all. In her opening chapter of ""For the Children?,"" Erica R. Meiners stakes...  Read More >>

The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of...  Read More >>

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This is the memoirof Zeke Caligiuri, who grew up in South Minneapolis in the 1990s when the citywas dubbed ""Murderapolis.""...  Read More >>

The rapper details the circumstances that led to his year-long incarceration at Rikers Island and his experiences...  Read More >>

This book provides a wide-ranging, detailed and rigorous examination of this penal voluntary sector, rigorously...  Read More >>

During the long Second World War, military mobilization, social disorder, and political changes swelled the ranks...  Read More >>

""Study of over sixty homicide offenders who served long sentences before being released""--Foreword.  Read More >>

""Study of over sixty homicide offenders who served long sentences before being released""--Foreword.  Read More >>

This book raises some delicate and searching questions. They include: Why was Hindley treated differently? , Why...  Read More >>

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Stephen C. McGuinn develops a conception of prison infrastructure and policy to explore how workers and administrators...  Read More >>

From ex-professional bank robber, this is a dictionary of criminal slang out there - and an absorbing journey, through...  Read More >>

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A Prison Doctor's exciting account of life behind the walls and bars of some of the UK's toughest prisons.  Read More >>

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