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Finalist: PROSE Awards 2025 - Education Theory and PracticeWritten by activists and scholars based in Australia, Kenya, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, Uganda and the USA, The …

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 …

Britain, like almost everywhere else, has a burgeoning drug problem. Finding ways of dealing with this problem is a major platform of government policy and a great deal has been …

Experience Mexican Jail! gives you all the tools you need to not only survive, but thrive, in Mexican jail. Essential reading for anybody visiting, living in, or considering …

Disorder Contained is the first historical account of the complex relationship between prison discipline and mental breakdown in England and Ireland. Between 1840 and 1900 the …

Davey Sommers should've ended up in a nice job, with a nice wife, living in a nice house...  Instead, he ends up an eight-man unlock in prison, serving 17 years for assaulting a …

Peter Zinoman's original and insightful study focuses on the colonial prison system in French Indochina and its role in fostering modern political consciousness among the …

The rotary jail was a very unusual architectural design. In response to a need for better control over prisoners, 18 of the revolving, escape-proof structures were erected in the …

Penologists, social services administra-tors, and students of criminal justice as well as of Indian studies will welcome this groundbreaking study, the product of close observation …

"e;Both a work of literature and an appeal to the nation's conscience in the tradition of Silent Spring and The Jungle."e; -Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning …