Prisons books

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Dying Inside: The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison

Dying Inside: The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison...

Author: Benjamin Dov Fleury-Steiner ,  Carla Crowder
ISBN: 9780472114290
Format: Hardback
$86.99

A graphic exposé of the inhumane treatment of HIV-positive inmates in U.S. prisons  Read More >>

Narcotic Farm, The:The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison fo: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts

Narcotic Farm, The:The Rise and Fall of America's First...

Author: Nancy Campbell ,  J P. Olsen
ISBN: 9780810972865
Format: Hardback
$79.07

From 1935 until 1975, just about every junkie busted for dope went to The Narcotic Farm. Equal parts federal prison,...  Read More >>

Understanding the Management of High Risk Offenders

Understanding the Management of High Risk Offenders...

Author: Hazel Kemshall
ISBN: 9780335219988
Format: Paperback
$137.28

Drawing on a wide range of cross-national literature and original research by the author, this timely book reviews...  Read More >>

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: 9780761928317
Format: Hardback
$216.35

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Understanding the Management of High Risk Offenders

Understanding the Management of High Risk Offenders...

Author: Hazel Kemshall
ISBN: 9780335219995
Format: Hardback
$374.88

Drawing on a wide range of cross-national literature and original research by the author, this timely book reviews...  Read More >>

Razor-wire Dharma: A Buddhist Life in Prison

Razor-wire Dharma: A Buddhist Life in Prison

Author: Calvin Malone
ISBN: 9780861715633
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Calvin Malone is nearing the end of a 20-year prison sentence. It was in prison that Malone learned about Buddhism....  Read More >>

Race, Incarceration, and American Values

Race, Incarceration, and American Values

Author: Glenn C. Loury (Professor, Brown University) ,  Pamela S. Karlan (Stanford Law School)
ISBN: 9780262123112
Format: Hardback
$39.47

Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.  Read More >>

Screwed

Screwed

Author: Ronnie Thompson
ISBN: 9780755316663
Format: Paperback
$26.99

What really goes on behind bars - the truth about life as a prison officer  Read More >>

The Medieval Prison: A Social History

The Medieval Prison: A Social History

Author: G. Geltner
ISBN: 9780691135335
Format: Hardback
$72.99

The modern prison is commonly thought to be the fruit of an Enlightenment penology that stressed man's ability to...  Read More >>

Beyond Prison: The Fight to Reform Prison Systems around the World

Beyond Prison: The Fight to Reform Prison Systems around...

Author: Ahmed Othmani ,  Marguerite Garling
ISBN: 9781845454548
Format: Hardback
$269.10

This is an exceptional personal testimony and story of achievement - Ahmet Othmani tells of his own appalling treatment...  Read More >>

My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me

My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They...

Author: Mahvish Khan
ISBN: 9781586484989
Format: Hardback
$68.51

Some at Guantanamo are terrorists who deserve to be convicted and sentenced as such. Some are paediatricians and...  Read More >>

Better to be Feared

Better to be Feared

Author: Sean Bridges
ISBN: 9781845963316
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Doing Time: Finding Hope at San Quentin

Doing Time: Finding Hope at San Quentin

Author: Dennis J. Burke
ISBN: 9780809145270
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality

Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of...

Author: Regina Kunzel
ISBN: 9780226462264
Format: Hardback
$163.95

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In the Shadow of Prison: Families, Imprisonment and Criminal Justice

In the Shadow of Prison: Families, Imprisonment and...

Author: Helen Codd (University of Central Lancashire, UK.)
ISBN: 9781843922469
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This book explores current debates in relation to prisoners and their families in the UK, and introduces the reader...  Read More >>

In the Shadow of Prison: Families, Imprisonment and Criminal Justice

In the Shadow of Prison: Families, Imprisonment and...

Author: Helen Codd (University of Central Lancashire, UK.)
ISBN: 9781843922452
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores current debates in relation to prisoners and their families in the UK, and introduces the reader...  Read More >>

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

Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities: Reentry,...

Author: Anthony C. Thompson
ISBN: 9780814783030
Format: Hardback
$193.00

In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century, African Americans made up approximately twelve percent...  Read More >>

Farewell to Spandau

Farewell to Spandau

Author: Tony Tissier
ISBN: 9780750948371
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Human Rights in African Prisons

Human Rights in African Prisons

Author: Jeremy Sarkin
ISBN: 9780796922069
Format: Paperback
$82.67

Offers a consideration of the situation in African prisons and examines how regional and international legal instruments...  Read More >>

Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration

Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration...

Author: Paul Wright ,  Tara J. Herival
ISBN: 9781595581679
Format: Hardback
$71.15

An astonishing look at the range of industries, corporations and individuals profiting from the imprisonment of...  Read More >>

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