Individual Articles

• A Survey of Attitudes Toward Prison Reform - While the scientific survey on attitudes toward prison reform has concluded, a link to a PDF file containing the related article is provided. (Added: 4-Oct-2001 Hits: 342)

• Arizona - The 'Come on Vacation, Leave on Probation' State - A unique look at Canada-Arizona redneck politics. (Added: 21-Jul-2001 Hits: 209)

• Bailing out private prisons - by Judy Greene. Published in the American Prospect (Added: 15-Jul-2002 Hits: 137)

• Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex - Class warfare from above, by Michael Parenti, CovertAction Quarterly, Spring / Summer 2000 (Added: 7-Dec-2001 Hits: 161)

• Big house on the prairie - Despite protests by some, small-town leaders have sought out prisons as economic saviors. Both the critics' deepest fears and the boosters' highest hopes are likely to go unfulfilled. (Added: 14-Aug-2003 Hits: 111)

• Charity Lends a Hand to Prisons With Murky Off-the-Books Deals - As scrutiny of complex accounting grows in the wake of the Enron collapse, Provident -- a prison-owning foundation run by a group of lawyers and financial pros -- offers the unusual twist of a nonprofit playing the off-the-books game. (Added: 1-May-2002 Hits: 88)

• Clarence Darrow's Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail - 1902. (Added: 17-Jul-2004 Hits: 99)

• Convict Leasing in Alabama - From Alabama's Past, Capitalism Teamed with Racism to Create Cruel Partnership, By Douglas A. Blackmon. Wall Street Journal, July 16, 2001 (Added: 20-Sep-2004 Hits: 96)

• Corrections, Inc. by John Biewen - The nation's swelling inmate population has turned imprisonment into a $50 billion-a-year industry. Those who've prospered along the way include corporations, prison guard unions, and police agencies. American RadioWorks correspondent John Biewen examines how some of those with vested interests help to shape who gets locked up and for how long. (Added: 10-Apr-2002 Hits: 170)

• Crime and Punishment - The Facts - Good article (if dated from 1996) from the New Internationalist magazine in the UK. (Added: 8-Jun-2003 Hits: 203)

• Driving Forces Behind Prison Growth: The Mass Media - abridged and edited version of paper presented by Prof. Thomas Mathiesen, University of Oslo, Norway, Sociology of Law in April 1995. (Added: 7-Dec-2001 Hits: 152)

• Dying to Get Out - 14-story series in the Columbia Daily Tribune about the care given to prisoners by the for-profit health care provider Correctional Medical Services. Written by Mike Fuhrman in September and October 2002. (Added: 9-Nov-2002 Hits: 149)

• Hepatitis C: A Silent Epidemic Strikes U.S. Prisons - by Silja J.A. Talvi in Lip Magazine, May 2001 (Added: 11-Dec-2001 Hits: 162)

• How corporate bias affects criminal justice legislation - ALEC in the House (PDF File) This article originally appeared in the January 2002 issue of Prison Legal News by Brigette Sarabi, Director, Western Prison Project (Added: 7-May-2002 Hits: 100)

• Imprisoned Massachusetts - 11x17 map and information about Massachusetts prisons and jails. (2 page PDF file) (Added: 1-Dec-2004 Hits: 124)

• Jimmy Ryce Act - Hundreds of prisoners being released from prison sentences only to be detained as civil detainees. (Added: 18-May-2003 Hits: 130)

• Justice behind the walls: human rights in canadian prisons - Here you can find the entire expanded contents of Professor Michael Jackson's latest book, Justice behind the Walls, plus reseach tools and contextual hyperlinks, and also Professor Jackson's previous book, Prisoners of Isolation. (Added: 15-Jun-2003 Hits: 129)

• Myth: The poor commit the most crime - from Steve Kangas's Long FAQ on Liberalism (Added: 7-Mar-2004 Hits: 125)

• Outgrowing Juvenile Justice - Massachusetts has resisted--though only in part--the push to treat young offenders like hardened criminals. But are we giving kids a break or hedging our bets? Michael Jonas MassINC Free registration required. (Added: 31-Jan-2002 Hits: 106)

• PrisonJustice.org - grassroots prison reform organization in Indiana. The site hosts a report about prison guard racism. (Added: 30-Jun-2002 Hits: 151)

• Recent advances in crime and criminal justice statistics in the UK - [PDF] conference summary published Aug 20, 2003. UK Home Office Research Development Statistics. Contains a discussion of data sources and problems with international crime rate comparisions (Added: 21-Aug-2003 Hits: 76)

• Rush to Punishmebnt - Richard Swift visits the jailers and the jailed - in a system that's become an end in itself, New Internationalist Magazine, 1996. (Added: 8-Jun-2003 Hits: 117)

• States That Exported Inmates In 1990s Rethink Plans As Convict Pool Plateau - by Nicholas Kulish, Wall Street Journal 20 Dec 2001. Summarizes cross-border shipments of prisoners. (Added: 20-Sep-2004 Hits: 67)

• The Prison Industrial Complex - by Eric Lotke, Multinational Monitor, Nov 1996. (Added: 6-Dec-2001 Hits: 132)

• Why are you crying? Answer: 'My life, sir' - Can beatings turn young thugs into good citizens? To find out, march with Charlie Squad through two Maryland hells. First, there's 'boot camp.' Then, alas, there's 'home.' By Todd Richissin, Baltimore Sun, 4 part series in December 1999. (See links on right to the other 3 parts.) (free registration required, unfortunately) (Added: 9-Nov-2002 Hits: 146)