Prisons books

Discusses the role of torture in Iranian politics. This book provides documentation of its use under the Shahs and...  Read More >>

Jailbirds and Stool Pigeons is a story of human weakness. Featuring true crime stories of the Pacific Northwest...  Read More >>

One of the bloodiest battles in the history of American prisons occurred at Alcatraz in May 1946, when prisoners...  Read More >>

Going Straight will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand how and why some offenders reach a point when...  Read More >>

Advocate Bizos, himself centrally involved in many of the inquests following these deaths in detention, examines...  Read More >>

Here are the radio commentaries, the last of them recorded just two days before Pennsylvania prison authorities...  Read More >>

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A memoir of Nick Yarris, who was wrongly convicted of rape and murder and spent 23 years on Death Row. While he...  Read More >>

Carl De Keyzer took the journey East to photograph the former gulags, or prison camps, of Siberia. He photographed...  Read More >>

Based upon a qualitative study of the prison adjustment of advantaged offenders, this book challenges the ""special...  Read More >>

In this searing indictment of the criminal justice system, Paul Wright, Dan Pens and Daniel Burton-Rose kick open...  Read More >>

Six-five is a general warning to all inmates that an officer has just entered the area, so beware. Concealed behind...  Read More >>

In this sweeping examination of imprisonment in the United States over five centuries, Scott Christianson exposes...  Read More >>

An A-Z of adult and young offender penal establishemnts in England and Wales, this guide contains information about...  Read More >>

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The report of a survey carried out in 1997 by Social Survey Division of the Office for National Statistics on behalf...  Read More >>

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An analysis of the penal control of women at the end of the 20th century. The author develops many of the themes...  Read More >>

The history of the foundations of modern carceral institutions in Ontario. Drawing on a wide range of previously...  Read More >>

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Mankind likes to consider itself civilized. Sadly, this civilization is only skin-deep and man's inhumanity to man,...  Read More >>

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Breaking the Rules describes several prison programmes that have created caring communities where women have been...  Read More >>

The Oxford History of the Prison is an account of the growth and development of the prison in Western society, from...  Read More >>