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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryAddiction and Control Skorodin, Morton Article 2009 Prisons are very profitable. There are private prisons nowadays. The people that own them have, as their mission, first and foremost, the making of money. They need as many people as possible in priso... All Things Censored Abu-Jamal, Mumia Book 2003 A collection of prison essays and radio talks by Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been on death row since 1982. American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination Williams, Kristian Book 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. Barred from Prison  Culhane, Claire Article 1979 An account of what occured inside the B.C. Penitentiary during a prison uprising in September 1976. Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Selective Outrage: What about the Others? Casella, Jean; Ridgeway, James Article 2011 Calls attention to the widespread use of solitary confinement with Bradley Manning as a specific example. Bradley Manning's Torture Commonplace In U.S. Prisons Ross, Sherwood Article 2011 The corrosive, solitary confinement being inflicted upon PFC Bradley Manning in the Quantico, Va., brig is no exceptional torture devised exclusively for him. Across the length and breadth of the Grea... The Case for Penal Abolition West, W. Gordon and Ruth Morris, eds. Book 2000 A collection of essays on various aspects of the penal abolition movement and its arguments. Crime and Criminals: Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail Darrow, Clarence Article 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 thousan... Crime and Punishment in America: Why the Solutions to America's Most Stubborn Social Crisis Have Not Worked... and What Will Currie, Elliott Book 1998 Currie explores why being 'tough on crime' will only serve to exacerbate the problem. Deaths in Custody and Detention: Volume 33, No. 4 (2006) of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order Serial Publication (Periodical) 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). ... Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Prison Profits: Six-part article Fitts, Catherine Austin Article 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. A Duty of Honour: Against Capital Punishment Luxemburg, Rosa Article 1918 The existing penal system, which is permeated through and through with the brutal class spirit and barbarism of capitalism, must be extirpated root and branch. Empire Abroad, Empire At Home Moser, Richard Article 2017 The institutions and ideas U.S. elites used to project "full spectrum dominance" onto the global stage have eventually become part of the political order in the U.S. It is empire -- most of all -- tha... The English Government and the Fenian Prisoners Marx, Karl Article 1870 On the treatment of Fenian prisoners. Eye for an Eye Griswold, Jack; Misenheimer, Mike; Powers, Art; Tromanhauser, Ed Book 1970 Four inmates talk about the American penal system over 50 years of rehabilitation and the corruption inherent of the prison system. The Fear Factor: Stephen Harper's "Tough on Crime" Agenda Mallea, Paula Article 2010 This study analyses the financial and human costs of the Harper government's tough on crime agenda and concludes it is wrong-headed, expensive, and counter-productive. In fact, it will likely lead to ... Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime Rodriguez, Dylan Book 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 ... The Fortress Economy: The Economic Role of the U. S. Prison System Lichtenstein, Alexander C.; Kroll, Michael A. Book 1990 The economic role of the US Prison System examined. Going up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation Hallinan, Joseph T. Book 2001 On the prisons in America, their unprofitable nature, and their ineffectiveness. Hallinan also explores the workings of mostly-white towns that host prisons of predominately black inmates. History is a Weapon: Lockdown America in 22 Minutes Parenti, Christian Audio 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 Correcti... Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion James, Joy (ed.) Book 2003 Anthology of writings by imprisoned intellectuals. In Conflict with the Law: Women and the Canadian Justice System Adelberg, Ellen; Currie, Claudia Book 1994 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 Fut... In Russian and French Prisons Kropotkin, Peter Book 1906 Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails. Intractable: Hell Has a Name: Life Inside Australia's First Super-Max Prison Matthews, Bernie Book 2006 A firsthand account spanning two generations of high-security confinement in the 1970s NSW Australian prison system. Jails for Jesus Shapiro, Samantha M. Article 2003 President Bush wants faith-based programs to take over social services. But what happens when evangelical Christians try their hand at running prisons? Justice Behind the Walls: Human Rights in Canadian Prisons Jackson, Michael Book 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 legisl... Live From Death Row Abu-Jamal, Mumia Book 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. Lock 'Em Up: The Prison State Yates, Michael Article 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... Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis Parenti, Christian Book 1999 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... Mass Incarceration for Profit Dolinar, Brian; Kilgore, James Article 2015 In the face of growing public criticism and improved technologies, companies like Securus search for new ways to remain competitive while marketing themselves as providers of a quality service that ke... No Longer Barred From Prison Culhane, Claire Book 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 her... Oh! How -- German is this Revolution! Luxemburg, Rosa Article 1918 The existing penal system, breathing the spirit of brutal class-spirit and capitalist barbarism must be torn up by the roots. A fundamental system of prison-reform must be inaugurated immediately.
One Thousand Years of Solitude: Life in the SHU Mariner, Joanne Article 2012 Indefinite solitary confinement: a large-scale experiment in sensory deprivation and social isolation. The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society Morris, Norval; Rothman, David J. (eds.) Book 1997 Thematic chapters explore a variety of aspects and institutions. The Penal State in an Age of Crisis: Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 2 - June 2009 Holleman, Hannah; McChesney, Robert W.; Foster, John Bellamy; Jonna, R. Jamil Article 2009 We may be approaching a moment where it will be possible to open up a debate on the obscenity and absurdity of the present order and its punitive social control mechanisms. Smashing the penal state is... Penal transportation: Connexipedia Article Article 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 R... The Prison-Industrial Complex Schlosser, Eric Article 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 regio... Prison Labor: Workin' For The Man: Article in Covert Action Quarterly #54, Fall 1995 Erlich, Reese Article 1995 Article analysing the roots of prison labour in America. Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor Herivel, Tara; Wright, Paul Book 2002 Essays on the cruelty and inhumanity of the American prison system. Race, Incarceration, and American Values Loury, Glenn C., with Pamela Karlan, Tommie Shelby and Loïc Wacquant Book 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 con... Rampant Racism in the Criminal Justice System Quigley, Bill Article 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. The Real War on Crime: The Report of the National Criminal Justice Commission Donziger, Steven R. Book 1996 A thorough examination of the American criminal justice system. The Resistable Rise and Predictable Fall of the U.S. Supermax: Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009 Eisenman, Stephen F. Article 2009 The modern supermax regime is an aberration in American corrections. Based upon a penitentiary model that was dismissed as unsound more than 150 years ago, it was resurrected in the late 1970s and ’80... The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement Cummins, Eric Book 1994 A history of California's prison movement from 1950 to 1980, highlighting the role prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical inmate ideology. The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System Khalek, Rania Article 2011 The United States, with just 5 percent of the world’s population, currently holds 25 percent of the world's prisoners, and for the last 30 years America’s business entrepreneurs have found a lucrative... Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire Perkinson, Robert Book 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. The Violence of Incarceration Scraton, Phil; McCulloch, Mude (eds.) Book 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 us... When the Prisoners Ran Walpole: A true story in the movement for prison abolition Bissonette, Jamie Book 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... 'Worse than Slavery': Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice Oshinsky, David M. Book 1997 After the abolition of slavery the white rulers of Mississippi developed a new system for keeping the ex-slaves in line: laws were passed to maintain white supremacy, including the system of convict l... From the Connexions ArchivesThe Journal of Prisoners on Prisons Periodical profile published 1989 Serial Publication (Periodical) 1989 Odyssey Newsletter Periodical profile published 1982 Serial Publication (Periodical) 1982 The Odyssey Newsletter is published by a group of long term prisoners who "feel that prisons and the justice system in Canada must be changed through non-violent means." Odyssey Newsletter Periodical profile published 1981 Serial Publication (Periodical) 1981 This newsletter is published by "a group of prisoners who feel that prisons and the justice system in Canada can be changed by non-violent means." A Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice Newsletter Serial Publication (Periodical) 1979 A newsletter that argues against capital punishment. Rap About Prisoners Periodical profile published 1976 Serial Publication (Periodical) 1976 Representing people both inside and outside the prison system. |
