When Ernie L￠pez was a boy selling newspapers in Depression-era Los Angeles, his father beat him when he failed to bring home the expected eighty to ninety cents a day. When the beatings became unbea
In 1963, just weeks before the original publication of this book, the last prisoner was escorted off Devil?s Island and Alcatraz ceased to be a prison. Author J. Campbell Bruce chronicles in spellbind
The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds is the first major historical study of the creation and development of the prison system in Peru. Carlos Aguirre examines the evolution of prisons for male crimi
Explore the possibilities for successfully treating incarcerated or community-based substance abusersSubstance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients: Practical Implications for Institutional and C
This powerful expose reveals how America's ailing prison system undermines the public trust. For ten years, David Matlin taught at a maximum-security prison, where he confronted daily the nature of so
Global Lockdown is the first book to apply a transnational feminist framework to the study of criminalization and imprisonment. The distinguished contributors to this collection offer a variety of per
Life on the Outside tells the story of Elaine Bartlett, who spent sixteen years in Bedford Hills prison for selling cocaine--a first offense--under New York's Rockefeller drug laws. The book opens on
The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds is the first major historical study of the creation and development of the prison system in Peru. Carlos Aguirre examines the evolution of prisons for male crimi
Editor Bostworth's (sociology, Wesleyan University) introduction to this two-volume reference engages readers with some of the shocking facts about incarceration in the United States and then details
This volume presents the stories of some 60 U.S. prisoners awaiting execution. It consists mostly of excerpts taken from letters written by convicts to British pen pals through the LifeLines program.
The exiled Argentine newspaper publisher details his advocacy of human rights, his 1977 arrest, his thirty months of imprisonment, interrogation and torture, the revocation of his citizenship, and his
First published in 1964 by the Johns Hopkins University Press, the book recounts in lively prose and complete detail the Civil War prejudices and politics behind Maryland’s decision to become the firs
The human cost of the Gulag, the Soviet labor camp system in which millions of people were imprisoned between 1920 and 1956, was staggering. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and others after him have written mo
To examine the consequences of the collapse of the Soviet penal system for prison laborers, Piacentini (criminology, U. of Stirling, Scotland) talked to Russian prisoners, prison personnel and senior
Mayada's story, both past and present, is truly incredible. Her family was one of the most distinguished and honored families in Iraq. One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia. The other w
Coldren, president of the John Howard Association for Prison Reform, describes how the fields of psychology and law have interacted at the Patuxent Institution in Jessup, Maryland for the past 50 year
Gaes and his distinguished co-authors offer a comprehensive analysis of public vs. private management of prisons, a competition that originated with the introduction of private facilities into the cri
