Prisons books

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Lifers: Seeking Redemption in Prison

Lifers: Seeking Redemption in Prison
Author: John Irwin ISBN: 9780415801683 Format: Hardback	$336.00
Tackles the issue of imprisonment with the conventional wisdom on homicide, society's purposes of imprisonment,... Read More >>

Written in Stone: The Graffiti in Kilmainham Jail

Written in Stone: The Graffiti in Kilmainham Jail
Author: Niamh O'Sullivan ISBN: 9781905483723 Format: Paperback	$65.87
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Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor...
Author: Yong Kim , Suk-Young Kim ISBN: 9780231147460 Format: Hardback	$65.95
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Crisis and Change in the British and Dutch Prison Services: Understanding Crisis-Reform Processes

Crisis and Change in the British and Dutch Prison Services:...
Author: Sandra L. Resodihardjo ISBN: 9780754675495 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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Alcatraz: The Gangster Years

Alcatraz: The Gangster Years
Author: David Ward , Gene Kassebaum ISBN: 9780520265967 Format: Paperback	$52.95
Brings to life the stories of legendary 'public enemies' for whom America's first supermax prison was created. This... Read More >>

Alcatraz: The Gangster Years

Alcatraz: The Gangster Years
Author: David Ward , Gene Kassebaum ISBN: 9780520256071 Format: Hardback	$105.60
Al Capone, George 'Machine Gun' Kelly, Alvin Karpis, 'Dock' Barker - these were just a few of the legendary 'public... Read More >>

Hard Time at Tehachapi: California's First Women's Prison

Hard Time at Tehachapi: California's First Women's Prison...
Author: Kathleen A. Cairns ISBN: 9780826345721 Format: Hardback	$79.07
The California Institution for Women, Tehachapi, pitted those who viewed rehabilitating female inmates as crucial... Read More >>

From Newgate to Dannemora: The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, 1796–1848

From Newgate to Dannemora: The Rise of the Penitentiary...
Author: W. David Lewis ISBN: 9780801475481 Format: Paperback	$79.07
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Send Them to Hell

Send Them to Hell
Author: Sebastian Williams ISBN: 9781840189919 Format: Paperback	$47.39
Murder, human-rights abuse, drugs, prisoner and child sex slavery, violence, medical maltreatment and unjustifiable... Read More >>

Papillon

Papillon
Author: Henri Charrière , Patrick O’Brian ISBN: 9780007330102 Format: Paperback	$15.50
A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure – a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s Read More >>

Restorative Justice in a Prison Community: Or Everything I Didn't Learn in Kindergarten I Learned in Prison

Restorative Justice in a Prison Community: Or Everything...
Author: Cheryl Swanson ISBN: 9780739126790 Format: Hardback	$194.04
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The National Offender Management Information System

The National Offender Management Information System...
Author: Great Britain: National Audit Office ISBN: 9780102954678 Format: Paperback	$37.13
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) initiative - begun in 2004 - to build a single offender management... Read More >>

My Years in a Pakistani Prison: The Untold Story of Kishorilal Alias Amarik Singh Alias Saleem, an Indian Spy in Pakistan

My Years in a Pakistani Prison: The Untold Story of...
Author: Kishorilal Sharma ISBN: 9780979617447 Format: Hardback	$71.15
Kishorilal was called up by his country to do national service. He partook in a rigourous training programme that... Read More >>

Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities: Reentry, Race, and Politics

Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities: Reentry,...
Author: Anthony C. Thompson ISBN: 9780814783214 Format: Paperback	$64.99
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Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy & Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex

Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy & Struggle Against...
Author: Critical Resistance Collective ISBN: 9781904859963 Format: Paperback	$25.88
Published in honour of Critical Resistance's tenth anniversary and their commitment to the abolition of the prison... Read More >>

Inside Gitmo: The True Story Behind the Media Myths of Guantanamo Bay

Inside Gitmo: The True Story Behind the Media Myths...
Author: Gordon Cucullu ISBN: 9780061762307 Format: Hardback	$65.97
A description of a well-run military installation displaying a high degree of commitment and professionalism at... Read More >>

Principles of European Prison Law and Policy: Penology and Human Rights

Principles of European Prison Law and Policy: Penology...
Author: Dirk van Zyl Smit (Professor of Comparative and International Penal Law, University of Nottingham) , Sonja Snacken (Professor and Research Fellow, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) ISBN: 9780199228430 Format: Hardback	$261.95
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Prison Round Trip

Prison Round Trip
Author: Klaus Viehmann , Bill Dunne ISBN: 9781604860825 Format: Paperback	$9.99
Bang. The door to your cell is shut. You have survived the arrest, you are mad that you weren't more careful, you... Read More >>

Do Prisons Make Us Safer?: The Benefits and Costs of the Prison Boom

Do Prisons Make Us Safer?: The Benefits and Costs of...
Author: Steven Raphael , Michael A. Stoll ISBN: 9780871548603 Format: Hardback	$105.47
"The number of people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails more than quadrupled between 1975 and 2005, reaching... Read More >>

Talk of Darkness

Talk of Darkness
Author: Fatna El Bouih , Mustapha Kamal ISBN: 9780292719156 Format: Paperback	$26.95
Tells the true story of one woman's struggle to secure political prisoners' rights and defend herself against an... Read More >>

Children and young people in custody: Managing the risk

Children and young people in custody: Managing the risk...
Author: Maggie Blyth (Member of the Parole Board for England and Wales) , Chris Wright (Rainer) ISBN: 9781847422613 Format: Paperback	$45.95
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Prison Law: A Practical Guide

Prison Law: A Practical Guide
Author: Margaret Obi ISBN: 9781853285646 Format: Paperback	$155.25
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Handbook for Prison Managers and Policymakers on Women and Imprisonment

Handbook for Prison Managers and Policymakers on Women...
Author: United Nations ISBN: 9789211302677 Format: Paperback	$66.00
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Addicted to Incarceration: Corrections Policy and the Politics of Misinformation in the United States

Addicted to Incarceration: Corrections Policy and the...
Author: Travis C. Pratt ISBN: 9780761928324 Format: Paperback	$97.55
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Dark Spaces: Montana's Historic Penitentiary at Deer Lodge

Dark Spaces: Montana's Historic Penitentiary at Deer...
Author: Ellen Baumler , J.M. Cooper ISBN: 9780826345479 Format: Paperback	$65.87
Describes the physical and human tale of the penitentiary at Deer Lodge whose idyllic setting contrasts so violently... Read More >>

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