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• Confronting Confinement: A Report of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons (2006), by Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons, contrib. by John J. Gibbons and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach (PDF with commentary at vera.org)
• Prison Reform in the United States (New York: National Printing Co., 1877) (page images at MOA)
• Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States (Philadelphia: Joseph Kite and Co., 1845), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (multiple formats at Google)
• Woman in prison (Published by Hurd and Houghton ;, 1869), by Caroline H. Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supermax prisons and the Constitution : liability concerns in the extended control unit (U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Corrections, 2004), by William C. Collins and National Institute of Corrections (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The findings and recommendations of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons : hearing before the Subcommittee on Corrections and Rehabilitation of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, June 8, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Corrections and Rehabilitation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison discipline in America (C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1847), by Francis Calley Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal role in promoting and using special alternative incarceration : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session, January 29, 1990 (Lansing, MI) ; March 1, 1990 (Washington, DC). (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief statement of the causes which have led to the abandonment of the celebrated system of penitentiary discipline, in some of the United States of America : in a letter to the Hon. Stephen Allen, of New-York. (Harris, 1827), by William Roscoe and Stephen Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison boot camps : too early to measure effectiveness : briefing report to the Honorable Lloyd Bentsen, U.S. Senate (The Office, 1988), by Lloyd Bentsen and United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pennsylvanian system of prison discipline triumphant in France. (Printed by I. Ashmead, 1847), by George Sumner and Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Humanity and humanitarianism : with special reference to the prison systems of Great Britain and the United States, the question of criminal lunacy, and capital punishment (F.B. Kitto, 1871), by William Tallack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison reform in the United States : proceedings of a conference held at Newport, Rhode Island, August 1st and 2d, 1877. (National Print. Co., 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prisoner management and control (U.S. Bureau of Prisons, 1969), by Mark S. Richmond and United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Pepper spray (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, 1997), by Steven Michael Edwards, Jamie Onnen, John P. Granfield, and National Institute of Justice (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reassessing solitary confinement : the human rights, fiscal, and public safety consequences : hearing before the Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate. (Washington : U.S. Government Printing Office, 2012-, 2012), by Civil Rights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)

• A defence of the system of solitary confinement of prisoners adopted by the state of Pennsylvania : with remarks on the origin, progress and extension of this species of prison discipline (Philadelphia : Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1833., 1833), by George W. Smith, E. G. Dorsey, and Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reassessing solitary confinement : the human rights, fiscal, and public safety consequences : hearing before the Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate. (Washington : U.S. Government Printing Office, 2012-, 2012), by Civil Rights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marion Penitentiary--1985 : oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, on Marion Penitentiary--1985, Wednesday, June 26, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1986), by Civil Liberties United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Federal role in promoting and using special alternative incarceration : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session, January 29, 1990 (Lansing, MI) ; March 1, 1990 (Washington, DC). (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of Committee on Penitentiary to the thirty-second General Assembly of Missouri. (State Journal, 1883), by Missouri. General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Joint Committee appointed by the Nebraska Legislature to Investigate the Charges of Cruelty and Mode of Punishment Inflicted upon Convicts in the Nebraska State Penitentiary : with all the testimony taken in the investigation. (The Committee, 1893), by Nebraska. Legislature. Joint Committee to Investigate the Charges of Cruelty and Mode of Punishment Inflicted upon Convicts in the Nebraska State Penitentiary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Commissioners to Examine the Various Systems of Prison Discipline and Propose an Improved Plan. (True American, 1869), by New Jersey. Commissioners to Examine the Various Systems of Prison Discipline and Propose an Improved Plan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New York State Reformatory in Elmira (Swan Sonnenschein, 1891), by Alexander Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corruption and abuses in the correctional system : the Green Haven Correctional Facility (The Commission, 1981), by New York (State). Temporary Commission of Investigation and Green Haven Correctional Facility (page images at HathiTrust)
• Necessary next steps in the treatment of delinquents. (Albany, New York : J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1918., 1918), by Prison Association of New York (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reports on the stepping or discipline mill, at the New York Penitentiary : together with several letters of the subject (Van Pelt and Spear, 1823), by Stephen Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Pennsylvanian system of prison discipline triumphant in France. (Printed by I. Ashmead, 1847), by George Sumner and Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• A defence of the system of solitary confinement of prisoners adopted by the state of Pennsylvania : with remarks on the origin, progress and extension of this species of prison discipline (Philadelphia : Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1833., 1833), by George W. Smith, E. G. Dorsey, and Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mutual agreement program practical outcome evaluation (Department of Health and Social Services, Divison of Corrections, Office of Systems and Evaluation, 1977), by Wisconsin. Division of Corrections. Office of Systems and Evaluation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Arming the Torturers: Electro-Shock Torture and the Spread of Stun Technology (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)
• Inside the world's toughest prison (C.C. Thomas, 1962), by Joseph Edward Ragen and Charles Finston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal role in promoting and using special alternative incarceration : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session, January 29, 1990 (Lansing, MI) ; March 1, 1990 (Washington, DC). (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on penitentiary discipline, addressed to William Roscoe of Liverpool, England. (Totten, 1827), by Stephen Allen and William Roscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• De cellulaire gevangenisstraf in Nederland sinds hare invoering bij de wet van 28 Juni 1851, Stbl. no. 68 ... (P. Noordhoff, 1887), by Jacobus Johannes Aricius Quintus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on prison labour ... (Rodwell & Martin, 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber Gefängnisse, Strafarten ... und Strafanstalten. (G.J. Manz, 1852), by G. Fr Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Grundbedingungen jeder Gefängniss-Reform im Sinne der Einzelhaft. (F.C.W. Vogel, 1865), by Julius August Fueesslin (page images at HathiTrust)
• System der Gefängnisskunde. Nebst einem kurzem Anhange: Von der Verwaltung des Predigtamtes am Gefängniss. (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1866), by Karl Wilhelm Haenell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rapport till Hans Excellens herr justitie-stats-ministern, om fängelserna i Tyskland, Schweitz, Frankrike, Belgien och England (Tryckt hos L.J. Hjerta, 1845), by Charles Emil Hagdahl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur l'emprisonnement cellulaire en France et à l'étranger. (A. Rousseau, 1887), by Joseph Astor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die neueren Versuche zur Verbesserung der Gefängnisse und Strafansta ten. (Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1842), by Christian Georg Nathan David (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prisons et détenus. (J.B. Baillière & fils, 1870), by Bertrand Fraisse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Beruf des Aufsehers in den Strafanstalten und Gefängnissen. (B. Konegen, 1904), by C. Fliegenschmidt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Secondary punishment. The Mark system (J. Ollivier, 1848), by Alexander Maconochie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notices of the original, and successive efforts, to improve the discipline of the prison at Philadelphia, and to reform the criminal code of Pennsylvania: with a few observations on the penitentiary system. ... (Published by Kimber and Sharpless ..., 1826), by Roberts Vaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison discipline in its relations to society and individuals : as deterring from crime, and as conducive to personal reformation (J. Hatchard, 1839), by Daniel Nihill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penal discipline : three letters suggested by the interest taken in the recent inquiry in Birmingham, and published in "The Daily news" 23rd, 24th, and 26th September (T. Harrison, 1853), by Alexander Maconochie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A defence of the system of solitary confinement of prisoners adopted by the state of Pennsylvania, etc. (Phil., 1833), by George Washington Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on separate and congregate systems of prison disciplinemicroform : being a report made to the Boston Prison Discipline Society (W.D. Ticknor, 1846), by S. G. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the Discipline and Management of the Convict Prisons. 1850. (London, 1851), by Great Britain. Surveyor-General of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on separate and congregate systems of prison dscipline; being a report made to the Boston Prison Discipline Society (W. D. Ticknor and Company, 1846), by S. G. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• An enquiry into the causes of the frequent executions at Tyburn : and a proposal for some regulations concerning felons in prison, and the good effects to be expected from them : to which is added a discourse on transportation and a method to render that punishment more effectual (Printed and sold by J. Roberts ..., 1725), by Bernard Mandeville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introductory report to the code of reform and prison discipline (T. Cary, 1831), by Edward Livingston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kate O'Hare's prison letters. (Appeal to Reason, 1919), by Kate Richards O'Hare and Appeal to Reason (Organization) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison discipline : the advantages of the separate system of imprisonment, as established in the new County gaol of Reading, with a description of the former prisons, and a detailed account of the discipline now pursued. (Longman & Co., 1846), by J. Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black caucus report : "Treatment of prisoners at California Training Facility at Soledad Central." (s.n., 1970), by Senate Democratic Caucus (Calif.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Remarks on the principles of criminal legislation, and the practice of prison discipline. (Simpkin, Marshall and co.; [etc., etc.], 1854), by George Combe (page images at HathiTrust)
• New views of penitentiary discipline, and moral education and reform. (William Brown, printer., 1829), by Charles Caldwell and William Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

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