Prisons books

Takes us into a world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the 'supermaximums' - and...  Read More >>

Correctional services -- which includes salaries and benefits for correctional officersis the Department of Justice's...  Read More >>

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The Marion Experiment combines academic research with personal accounts by prisoners to investigate solitary confinement...  Read More >>

Letters to a Lifer provides a rare insight into life without parole (LWOP) for juveniles in the USA. A true story...  Read More >>

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Presenting transcribed interviews of corrections leaders, this book offers a comprehensive survey of correctional...  Read More >>

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Having gained access to California prisoners and corrections officials and to thousands of prisoners' written grievances...  Read More >>

During the Zimbabwean struggle for independence, the settler regime imprisoned numerous activists and others it...  Read More >>

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

Tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state...  Read More >>

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The United States has the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world. But are we any safer? The author proves...  Read More >>

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Incorporates data gathered over 18 months, including visits to prisons, and correspondence with prisoners and hermits,...  Read More >>

This book explores how prisoners turn themselves into active opponents of the prison regime, and thus reclaim their...  Read More >>

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Exploring the way in which criminal punishment is interpreted and narrated by offenders, this book examines the...  Read More >>

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