Prisons books

1469 books were found.

Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban

Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban

Author: Jere van Dyk
ISBN: 9780805088274
Format: Hardback
$66.00

Offers an account of the author's forty-five days in a Taliban prison.  Read More >>

The Hate Factory: Thirty Years Inside with the UK's Most Notorious Villains

The Hate Factory: Thirty Years Inside with the UK's...

Author: David Leslie
ISBN: 9781845966195
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Convicted murderer Billy Ferris has endured more than three decades behind bars in many of Britain's prisons. This...  Read More >>

America Is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s

America Is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in...

Author: Lee Bernstein
ISBN: 9780807833872
Format: Hardback
$92.40

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PRISON AND THE PENAL SYSTEM

PRISON AND THE PENAL SYSTEM

Author: Michael Newton
ISBN: 9781604138931
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Convicted criminals are sentenced to jail terms, fines, probation, community service, and sometimes execution. Prison...  Read More >>

Inside America's Concentration Camps: Two Centuries of Internment and Torture

Inside America's Concentration Camps: Two Centuries...

Author: James L. Dickerson
ISBN: 9781556528064
Format: Hardback
$65.87

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Del Cautiverio / On Captivity: A Spanish Soldier's Experience in a Havana Prison, 1896-1898

Del Cautiverio / On Captivity: A Spanish Soldier's Experience...

Author: Manuel Ciges Aparicio ,  D. J. Walker
ISBN: 9780773413276
Format: Hardback
$369.47

Presents an account of journalist and novelist Manuel Ciges Aparicio's imprisonment in La Cabana fortress/prison...  Read More >>

Holloway Prison: An Inside Story

Holloway Prison: An Inside Story

Author: Hilary Beauchamp ,  Maggi Hamblyn
ISBN: 9781904380566
Format: Paperback
$59.38

A compelling, true life account of her time working in this famous north-London prison. Hilary Beauchamp 'lifts...  Read More >>

Excellent Mrs Fry: The Unlikely Heroine

Excellent Mrs Fry: The Unlikely Heroine

Author: Anne Isba
ISBN: 9781847250391
Format: Hardback
$118.67

Elizabeth Fry was one of the quiet heroines of Victorian England. This title presents a study of the Quaker social...  Read More >>

By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives

By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives

Author: Judith Tannenbaum ,  Spoon Jackson
ISBN: 9780981559353
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Two California poets plumb the telling depths of their creative lives and souls across prison bars.  Read More >>

By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives

By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives

Author: Judith Tannenbaum ,  Spoon Jackson
ISBN: 9781613320655
Format: Hardback
$193.00

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Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran

Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran

Author: Roxana Saberi
ISBN: 9780061965289
Format: Hardback
$68.61

On the morning of January 31, 2009, Roxana Saberi, a brilliant and fearless Iranian-American journalist working...  Read More >>

Corrections: An Introduction

Corrections: An Introduction

Author: Richard P. Seiter
ISBN: 9780135060827
Format: Paperback
$311.52

This book examines corrections not just from an academic view, but from those who are at the center of the system....  Read More >>

Monkey House Blues: A Shanghai Prison Memoir

Monkey House Blues: A Shanghai Prison Memoir

Author: Dominic Stevenson
ISBN: 9781845965662
Format: Paperback
$50.03

There, he was imprisoned alongside just five westerners amongst five thousand Chinese criminals in a block for death...  Read More >>

Fifty Year Stretch: Prisons and Imprisonment 1980-2030

Fifty Year Stretch: Prisons and Imprisonment 1980-2030...

Author: Stephen Shaw ,  Martin Narey
ISBN: 9781904380573
Format: Hardback
$131.87

An absorbing and highly innovative work by one of the UK's leading experts on prisons and penal reform. This book...  Read More >>

Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women's Prisons

Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in...

Author: Megan Sweeney
ISBN: 9780807871003
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their...  Read More >>

Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons

Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in...

Author: Megan Sweeney
ISBN: 9780807833520
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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A Chronicle of Jails

A Chronicle of Jails

Author: Darrell Figgis ,  William Murphy
ISBN: 9781906359300
Format: Paperback
$41.95

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Release from Prison: European Policy and Practice

Release from Prison: European Policy and Practice

Author: Nicola Padfield (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Dirk Van Zyl Smit (University of Nottingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781843927419
Format: Hardback
$336.00

This book addresses the current debates surrounding the release of prisoners, offering an invaluable survey of the...  Read More >>

Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States

Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women...

Author: Rickie Solinger ,  Paula C. Johnson
ISBN: 9780520258891
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A collection of writings about imprisoned women in the United States. It offers a view of the realities of women's...  Read More >>

Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge

Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business,...

Author: Donna Selman ,  Paul Leighton
ISBN: 9781442201736
Format: Paperback
$54.95

Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political...  Read More >>

Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge

Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business,...

Author: Donna Selman ,  Paul Leighton
ISBN: 9781442201729
Format: Hardback
$134.95

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