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  1. Allow the Water
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  2. Barred from Prison
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
  3. Briefe aus dem Gefangnis
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1946
  4. Bureau of Public Secrets
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
  5. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
  6. Crime, Prison and Alternatives
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1978
  7. Eye for an Eye
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  8. Going up the River
    Travels in a Prison Nation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  9. In Conflict with the Law
    Women and the Canadian Justice System
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    "timely and incisive critique of women and the Canadian justice system. Written from a feminist perspective, the collection is organized into three thematic sextions: Federal Imprisonment of Women -- Past, Present and Future; Images and Realities -- Profiles of Women Offenders; and Theoretical Considerations about Women in Conflict with the Law."
    "Among the highlighted issues are prostitution, Battered Woman Syndrome as a defence for women who kill abusive partners, Aboriginal women's significant contributions to prison reform, media stereotypes of women in prison, and a progress report on the implementation of recommendations from the 1990 Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women"
  10. In Russian and French Prisons
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  11. The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
    Periodical profile published 1989
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  12. Make the Don a Museum of Horrors
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
    A museum depicting what prison is really like might motivate us to demand radical changes to the way we deal with offenders.
  13. Men in Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    Victor Serge's novel based on his own experiences as a politcal prisoner.
  14. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
  15. Prison Abolition & Alternatives
    Nine Perspectives for Prison Abolitionists

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    A argument for the abolition of prisons and a discussion of alternatives.
  16. Prison Journals of a Priest revolutionary
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  17. A Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice Newsletter
    Periodical profile published 1979
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  18. The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  19. Tightwire, Vol. III, Edition 1
    Periodical profile published 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  20. Unruly Women
    The Politics of Confinement and Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    "Challenges misconceptions of "deviant" women and investigates the many ways in which women who transgress the social order are disciplined, punished, silenced and confined. Informed by twenty years of advocacy work with women in prison and many years of research and teaching the the field of criminology, this feminist analysis of women and criminal justice..."
    "Covering material from the witch hunts to contemporary discriminatory treatment of women by the state and its law enforcement agencies"
  21. Writers in Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990

Experts on Prisons in the Sources Directory

  1. Michael C. Chettleburgh
  2. St. Leonard's Society of Canada

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