Prisons books

Illiterate Inmates tells the story of the emergence, at the turn of the nineteenth century, of a powerful idea -...  Read More >>

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This thoughtful examination of incarceration in the United States from the 1980s to the current time offers for...  Read More >>

This book establishes a new framework for the architectural design of prisons in non-repressive prison models to...  Read More >>

In outlining the online expressions of penal life, this book disrupts the conventional human encounters that underpin...  Read More >>

Offering an important addition to existing critiques of governance feminism and carceral expansion based mainly...  Read More >>

The book discusses such matters as the pains of imprisonment, penal order, staff-prisoner relationships and the...  Read More >>

""As the coal industry has declined in Central Appalachia, prisons have emerged as a primary way that the state...  Read More >>

Luka Kane was executed in front of a jeering crowd, but before he died, he opened one pair of eyes to the truth:...  Read More >>

This book aims to apply the new generation of information technology to the research and practice of prison management,...  Read More >>

The ultimate guide to what it's like to be behind bars in America. It lays bare the day-to-day existence of prisoners...  Read More >>

From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of Strangeways comes a shocking account of what it is like to be...  Read More >>

""As the coal industry has declined in Central Appalachia, prisons have emerged as a primary way that the state...  Read More >>

From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown In The Prison Doctor:...  Read More >>

In this searching lament by the award-winning author of We That Are Young, Taneja interrogates the language of terror,...  Read More >>

A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder Contained investigates...  Read More >>

A piercing account of life as a forensic psychiatrist  Read More >>

'The Art of Crime' charts the journey of a rookie prison art tutor from idealism to the depths of the prison underworld....  Read More >>

Moving away from grand metaphorical or theoretical models, Rethinking the Gulag instead unearths the complexities...  Read More >>

Moving away from grand metaphorical or theoretical models, Rethinking the Gulag instead unearths the complexities...  Read More >>

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This insightful book identifies the risks posed by prison lockdowns to minority ethnic prisoners, foreign national...  Read More >>

The Secret Prison Governor has spent decades surrounded by every type of prisoner known to man, from petty thieves...  Read More >>

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