1. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. Alternatives to the Death Penalty
   The Problem with Life Imprisonment
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2007
   
3. American Methods
   Torture and the Logic of Domination
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2006
   A damning audit of the US record in underwriting human rights violations around the globe and at home, and about the centrality of rape, racism, and conquest to both the state and US national culture..
4. Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti
   Resource Type: Audio
   First Published: 1946   Published: 1996
   An album of songs written and recorded by Woody Guthrie about the notorious case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants and anarchists in the 1920s who were charged and eventually executed after a highly dubious trial for their supposed involvement in a robbery.
   
5. Bulldozer
   Periodical profile published 1984
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1984
   Inactive/Defunct Periodical
   
6. Bulldozer
   Periodical profile published 1982
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1982
   Inactive/Defunct Periodical
   
7. The Capital Punishment Debate 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1984
   The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
8. Converse
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1976
   The role of church people in the correctional system.
9. Convict Labor in America
   Book review
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1998
   Convict labour, like antebellum slavery, was an American way of life, a cultural practice that tied northern capitalists, plantation owners, university-trained social reformers, federal officials and advocates of "good roads" together in a powerful alliance.
10. Counterpunch 
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
11. Crime and Criminals 
    Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1902
    So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousands of poor people to jail. So long as men are allowed to monopolize all the earth, and compel others to live on such terms as these men see fit to make, then you are bound to get into jail.
12. Crime and Punishment in America
    Why the Solutions to America's Most Stubborn Social Crisis Have Not Worked... and What Will
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Currie explores why being 'tough on crime' will only serve to exacerbate the problem.
13. Crime, Prison and Alternatives
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1978
    
14. Death Blossoms
    Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    
15. Deaths in Custody and Detention
    Volume 33, No. 4 (2006) of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2006
    A special issue on the investigation of, and inquiry into, deaths in custody and detention (including state hospitals and mental health, police and prison custody, and young offenders' institutions). The volume sets out to consider how advanced democratic states inquire into and investigate deaths in controversial circumstances. Also considered are the deadly force and exceptional incarceration policies associated with the "war on terror" waged by the U.S. and U.K. Articles and essays cover the U.K., Ireland, the U.S. (including, Guantanamo), and Australia and mix academic pieces with accounts from prisoners and campaigners.
16. Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Prison Profits
    Six-part article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Inside the Financial World, Government Agencies and their Private Contractors Lies a Hidden System of Money Laundering, Drug Trafficking and Rigged Stock Market Riches.
17. Execution Day in Zhengzhou
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    A first-hand account of an execution day in China.
18. Forced Passages
    Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    The dramatic rise and consolidation of America's prison system has devastated lives and communities, but it has also transformed prisons into sites of political discourse and resistance, as they have become home to a growing number of writers, activists, poets, educators, and others who offer radical critiques of American society both within and beyond the prison walls.
19. The Fortress Economy
    The Economic Role of the U. S. Prison System
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    The economic role of the US Prison System examined.
20. Hanging in Canada
    A Concise History of a Controversial Topic
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1982
    
21. History is a Weapon
    Lockdown America in 22 Minutes
    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 2001
    A talk by Christian Parenti, author of Lockdown America: Police And Prisons in the Age of Crisis, about the thirty year explosion in prisons in the United States, at the Stop The ACA(American Correctional Association) conference.
22. In Russian and French Prisons
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1906   Published: 1991
    Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails.
23. International conference on prison abolition
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1983
    
24. Intractable: Hell Has a Name
    Life Inside Australia's First Super-Max Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A firsthand account spanning two generations of high-security confinement in the 1970s NSW Australian prison system.
25. Jails for Jesus
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    President Bush wants faith-based programs to take over social services. But what happens when evangelical Christians try their hand at running prisons?
26. The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
    Periodical profile published 1989
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
27. Justice Behind the Walls
    Human Rights in Canadian Prisons
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An account of the state of justice in Canadian prisons, weaving together the threads of correctional history, penal philosophy, landmark court decisions, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and legislative changes.
28. Live From Death Row
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    A collection of prison writing by Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was sentenced to death in 1982 for the murder of a police officer after a dubious trial.
29. Lock 'Em Up
    The Prison State
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Without a doubt, most of those enmeshed in the (in)justice system are not dangers to society and would not have been in it at all in a society that wasn’t so racist and so shot through with every kind of social and economic inequality. Unfortunately, whatever the reasons why so many men and women have been denied their freedom, once the numbers began to rise dramatically, constituencies came into being—lawyers, police, probation officers, prison guards and staff, drug and alcohol rehabilitation counselors, sex offender counselors, vendors of all sorts, clerks and other clerical support staff, court officers, judges, community service employers—that have a strong stake in milking the new cash cow.
30. Lockdown America 
    Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999   Published: 2008
    Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America not only documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of the war on crime, it also explains the political and economic history behind the massive crackdown.
31. Make the Don a Museum of Horrors
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    A museum depicting what prison is really like might motivate us to demand radical changes to the way we deal with offenders.
32. Maximum, Minimum, Medium
    A Journey Through Canadian Prisons
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Serving a nine-year sentence, Melnitzer documented his experience in three different prisons, along with his own introspections.
33. No Longer Barred From Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    An account of one individual's determined efforts to get inside prisons to see what is actually happening there. As her story makes clear, the penal system cannot tolerate such close scrutiny: she herself has been declared persona non grata and officially denied access to Canadian penitentiaries.
34. The Oxford History of the Prison
    The Practice of Punishment in Western Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Thematic chapters explore a variety of aspects and institutions.
35. Penal transportation
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The deporting of convicted criminals to a penal colony. Examples include transportation by France to Devil's Island and by the UK to its colonies in the Americas, from the 1610s through the American Revolution in the 1770s, and then to Australia between 1788 and 1868.
36. 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.
37. The Prison-Industrial Complex
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    Correctional officials see danger in prison overcrowding. Others see opportunity. The nearly two million Americans behind bars—the majority of them nonviolent offenders—mean jobs for depressed regions and windfalls for profiteers.
38. Prison Labor: Workin’ For The Man
    Article in Covert Action Quarterly #54, Fall 1995
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    Article analysing the roots of prison labour in America.
39. Prison Nation 
    The Warehousing of America's Poor
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Essays on the cruelty and inhumanity of the American prison system.
40. Prisoners' Rights Group
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    
41. Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1917
    The methods of coping with crime have no doubt undergone several changes, but mainly in a theoretic sense. In practice, society has retained the primitive motive in dealing with the offender; that is, revenge. It has also adopted the theologic idea; namely, punishment; while the legal and “civilized” methods consist of deterrence or terror, and reform.
42. Prisons in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Gosselin provides a political and historical view of the prison system and its inherent contradictions. He argues that the penal system is used by the State to maintain its authority. He remarks on corporations, the press and the parole board and the difference in their treatment and coverage of prisoners and prisons. He sees the penal system as a morally bankrupt bureaucracy which threatens future incarceration for many people that the economy cannot absorb.
43. Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice
    Organization profile published 1984
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1984
    
44. Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice
    Organization profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
    
45. A Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice Newsletter
    Periodical profile published 1979
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
46. Quaker Prison Committee
    A series of reflections by Ruth Morris, director of Canadian Friends Service Committee
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    A look at two case histories vis the bail system and pre-trial treatment of those charged.
47. Race, Incarceration, and American Values 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Glenn Loury argues that the extraordinary mass incarceration rate in the USA is not a response to rising crime rates. Instead, it is the product of a decision to become a more punitive society. He connects this policy to our history of racial oppression, showing that the punitive turn in American politics and culture emerged in the post-civil rights years and has today become the main vehicle for the reproduction of racial hierarchies.
48. Rampant Racism in the Criminal Justice System
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.
49. The Real War on Crime
    The Report of the National Criminal Justice Commission
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    A thorough examination of the American criminal justice system.
50. Still Barred From Prison
    Social Injustice in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    
51. Stories of Transformative Justice
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    
52. Texas Tough
    The Rise of America’s Prison Empire
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    A history of imprisonment, race, and politics from slavery to the present, with an emphasis on Texas, the most locked-down state in the USA.
53. The Threat of the Tag
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Tracking anklets for convicts are not a good way to alleviate prison overcrowding.
54. The Violence of Incarceration
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Argues that the revelations of extreme brutality perpetrated by allied soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo represent the inevitable end-product of domestic incarceration predicated on the use of extreme violence including lethal force.
55. When the Prisoners Ran Walpole 
    A true story in the movement for prison abolition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    In the months before they took over running the Walople maximum-security facility in 1973, prisoners and outside advocates created programs that sent more prisoners home for good. This account reveals what can happen when there is public will for change and trust that the incarcerated can achieve it.

Experts on Crime & Punishment in the Sources Directory

1. International Criminal Court
2. St. Leonard's Society of Canada