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Prisons United States
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American Mass Incarceration and Post-Network Quality Television : Captivating Aspirations


Flamand, Lee, author.
Amsterdam, Netherlands : Amsterdam University Press B.V., [2022] 2022

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America's prisons



Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2016] 2016

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At work in the iron cage the prison as gendered organization


Britton, Dana M.
New York : New York University Press, c2003. 2003

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The big house image and reality of the American prison


Cox, Stephen D., 1948-
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009. 2009

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Bureau of Prisons growing inmate crowding negatively affects inmates, staff, and infrastructure : a


United States. Government Accountability Office.
[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2012] 2012

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The case for more incarceration.



[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Policy and Communications, Office of Policy Development, 1992. 1992

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Challenging the prison-industrial complex activism, arts, and educational alternatives



Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011. 2011

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Data collections for the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003



[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, [2004] 2004

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Defense contracting: DOD's use of federal prison industries : report to congressional committees.


United States. Government Accountability Office, author.
Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, 2023. 2023

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Do prisons make us safer? : the benefits and costs of the prison boom



New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2009. 2009

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Downsizing prisons how to reduce crime and end mass incarceration


Jacobson, Michael, 1953-
New York and London : New York University Press, c2005. 2005

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Explaining U.S. imprisonment


Bosworth, Mary.
Los Angeles : Sage, c2010. 2010

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Federal escape offenses


Craun, Sarah, author.
Washington, DC : United States Sentencing Commission, 2023. 2023

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Federal prison inmates: rehabilitative needs and program participation


James, Nathan (Nathan Allen), author.
[Washington, D.C.] : Congressional Research Service, 2019- 2019

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Fourth city : essays from the prison in America



East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2013. 2013

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Gates of injustice : the crisis in America's prisons


Elsner, Alan.
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2006. 2006

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The globalization of supermax prisons



New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2013. 2013

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Hard time : a fresh look at understanding and reforming the prison


Johnson, Robert, author.
West Sussex, [England] : Wiley Blackwell, 2017. 2017

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Identity complex making the case for multiplicity


Hames-Garcia, Michael Roy.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 2011

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Incapacitation penal confinement and the restraint of crime


Zimring, Franklin E.
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995. 1995

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Ironies of imprisonment


Welch, Michael, Ph. D.
Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, c2005. 2005

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Living in prison : a history of the correctional system with an insider's view


Stanko, Stephen.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004. 2004

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Lockdown America


Parenti, Christian.
London ; New York : Verso, 2008. 2008

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Locked up in America



[Arlington, Virginia] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, [2014] 2014

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Mortality in state and federal prisons



[Washington, D.C.] : Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2020- 2016

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Muslims in US prisons : people, policy, practice



Boulder, Colorado ; London, [England] : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2015. 2015

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Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Prisons : hearing before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Ove


United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight.
Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [Congressional Sales Office], 2001. 2001

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A place to stand : the making of a poet


Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 1952-
New York : Grove Press, c2001. 2001

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The prison and the gallows the politics of mass incarceration in America


Gottschalk, Marie.
Cambridge, [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. 2006

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Prison gangs


Orlando, Dennise.
[Washington, D.C.] : Federal Judicial Center, [1997] 1997

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Prison nation : the warehousing of America's poor



New York : Routledge, 2003. 2003

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Prison state.



PBS, 2014. 2017

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Prisons



Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press, c2005. 2005

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Prisons



San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, c2000. 2000

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Prisons



Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2010. 2010

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Punishment for sale private prisons, big business and the incarceration binge


Selman, Donna, 1967-
Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c2010. 2010

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Punishment for sale : private prisons, big business, and the incarceration binge


Selman, Donna, 1967-
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010. 2010

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Report on the prisons and reformatories of the United States and Canada, made to the Legislature of


Wines, E. C. (Enoch Cobb), 1806-1879.
Albany, Van Benthuysen & sons, 1867. 1867

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Routledge handbook on American prisons


Gould, Laurie A., author.
New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [2021] 2021

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Sick justice : inside the American Gulag


Goldman, Ivan G., author.
Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2013] 2013

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Speaking of crime narratives of prisoners


O'Connor, Patricia E., 1949-
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2000. 2000

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Special issue : the beautiful prison



Bingley, England : Emerald, 2014. 2014

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Total confinement madness and reason in the maximum security prison


Rhodes, Lorna A. (Lorna Amarasingham)
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2004. 2004

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Why American prisons fail : how to fix them without spending more money (maybe less)


Paxson, Peyton, author.
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2016] 2016

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Why are so many Americans in prison?


Raphael, Steven, 1968-
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2013] 2013

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