Prisons books

""One would think that being thrown into a North African prison in leg-irons might be an exception to the adage...  Read More >>

Travel across Ontario and visit Ontarios heritage jails, ranging in size from single cell lockups to massive monuments...  Read More >>

Richard Williams was a lifelong anti-imperialist and socialist, one of the Ohio 7 convicted in 1984 of having carried...  Read More >>

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The first and only comprehensive guide to in-prison and post-release horticultural training programs.  Read More >>

Galway was one of thirty-eight Irish towns which had a local prison in the late nineteenth century. Thousands of...  Read More >>

The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have...  Read More >>

Describes the European system for the protection of people deprived of their liberty. This book discusses the different...  Read More >>

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Norman Parker spent twenty-five years of his life in a high security Category A prison. ""The Complete Parkhurst...  Read More >>

Over the last thirty years, the prison population in the United States has increased more than seven-fold to over...  Read More >>

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Including material on developments under the Bush administration, and statistics, graphs, and charts, this book...  Read More >>

Although sold to the public as a cost-saving measure, the privatization of prisons has not only led to significant...  Read More >>

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Examines the American prison system, where rapes, assaults, and deaths are regular occurrences, as well as the powerful...  Read More >>

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The Cultural Prison brings a new dimension to the study of prisoners and punishment by focusing on how the punishment...  Read More >>

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Although they have existed in Britain for over a thousand years, it was not until the nineteenth century that prisons...  Read More >>