Prisons -- History
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Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada (c2012), by Ted McCoy (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
- Irish Rebels in English Prisons: A Record of Prison Life (New York: P. J. Kenedy, 1899), by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Workhouses and Women's Work: Reprinted from The Church of England Monthly Review; Also, a Paper on the Condition of Workhouses, Read in the Social Economy Department of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at Birmingham, October, 1857 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858), by Louisa Twining
- Recollections of Life and Work: Being the Autobiography of Louisa Twining (London: E. Arnold, 1893), by Louisa Twining
- The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict, by Thomas Archer (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
- The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps: Prisoners' Testimonies and Satellite Photographs (second edition; Washington, DC: U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, c2012), by David R. Hawk (PDF at hrnk.org)
- An Island Hell: A Soviet Prison in the Far North (London: A. M. Philpot Ltd., 1926), by S. A. Mal'sagov, trans. by F. H. Lyon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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Filed under: Prisons- Handbuch des Gefängnisswesens in Einzelbeiträgen (2 volumes; Hamburg : J.F. Richter, 1888), ed. by Franz von Holtzendorff and Eugen von Jagemann
- Imprisonment (New York: Brentano's, c1924), by Bernard Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
- On Prison Discipline and Penal Legislation, by John Berrien Lindsley (page images at MOA)
- The Subterranean Brotherhood, by Julian Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
- Chapters on Social Science as Connected with the Administration of State Charities, by George Leib Harrison (page images at MOA)
- Behind Bars in Brazil, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)
- Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1922), ed. by Hastings H. Hart (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Plans for a Model Jail; A Departmental Plan for a Detention Home for Delinquent Women (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, ca. 1922), by Ralph Waldo Zimmerman and Maxwell Hyde (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Punishment, Prison and the Public: An Assessment of Penal Reform in Twentieth Century England by an Armchair Penologist (Hamlyn Lectures, #23; London: Stevens and Sons, 1971), by Rupert Cross (PDF in the UK)
- The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons (first edition; Warrington: Printed by W. Eyres and sold by T. Cadell, 1777), by John Howard (multiple formats at Google)
- A Long Day in a Short Life (New York: International Publishers, c1957), by Albert Maltz (multiple formats at archive.org)
- English Prisons To-Day: Being the Report of the Prison System Enquiry Committee (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1922), by Prison System Enquiry Committee (Great Britain), ed. by Stephen Hobhouse and Fenner Brockway (multiple formats a archive.org)
- A Holiday in Gaol (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Frederic Martyn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Penitentiaries and Reformatories, by Felicia Skene (HTML at Indiana)
- Scenes from a Silent World: or Prisons and Their Inmates, by Felicia Skene (HTML at Indiana)
- The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons (first edition; Warrington: Printed by W. Eyres and sold by T. Cadell, 1777), by John Howard (multiple formats at Google)
- Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences (London: William Heinemann, 1914), by Constance Lytton (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Story of Crime: From the Cradle to the Grave (London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1908), by Hargrave Lee Adam
- The Natural History of a Delinquent Career (second impression; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938), by Clifford R. Shaw and Maurice E. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
- Reformatory Prison Discipline, As Developed by the Rt. Hon Sir Walter Crofton, in the Irish Convict Prisons (London: Longman, Longman, Green, Longman, 1872), by Mary Carpenter
- The Twin Hells, by John N. Reynolds
- The Hidden Gulag: Putting Human Rights on the North Korea Policy Agenda: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First session, November 4, 2003 (Washington: GPO, 2003), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
- Special Report on Prisons and Prison Discipline, by Massachusetts Board of State Charities (page images at MOA)
- Informe Sobre los Establecimientos de Beneficencia y Correccion de Esta Capital: Su Estado Actual; Noticia de Sus Fondos; Reformas Que Desde Luego Necesitan y Plan General de su Arreglo, Presentado por José Maria Andrade, Méjico, 1864 (in Spanish; Mexico: Moderna Libreria Religiosa de J. L. Vallejo; et al., 1907), by Joaquín García Icazbalceta, ed. by Luis García Pimentel, contrib. by José Maria Tavares de Andrade
- Gates of Dannemora (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1951), by John Louis Bonn (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Bulletin on the Condition of the County Jails of Missouri (1904), by Charles A. Ellwood (page images at Missouri)
- The Twin Hells, by John N. Reynolds
- Regarding the Correctional Institutions of the State of New York (Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon Co., Printers, 1910), by New York State Prison Department (Javascript-dependent PDF at decalog.net)
- Protecting Inmate Rights: Prison Reform or Prison Replacement? (1976), by United States Commission on Civil Rights Ohio Advisory Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (full serial archives)
- Political Prisoners in Poland: An Exposure of the Persecution of Political, Racial and Religious Minorities To-day in Poland, From Documentary Sources (New York: International Committee for Political Prisoners, 1927), by International Committee for Political Prisoners (page images at HathiTrust)
- Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Habitat in Prisons (Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2013), by Pier Giorgio Nembrini (PDF with commentary at icrc.org)
- On Prison Discipline and Penal Legislation, by John Berrien Lindsley (page images at MOA)
- The Case for More Incarceration (1992), by United States Department of Justice Office of Policy and Communications, contrib. by William Pelham Barr, Steven R. Schlesinger, and Edward Himmelfarb (PDF with commentary at ojp.gov)
- 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)
- Crucibles of Crime: The Shocking Story of the American Jail (New York: Cosmopolis Press, 1923), by Joseph F. Fishman and Vee Perlman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Our Penal Machinery and its Victims (new and revised edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1886), by John Peter Altgeld (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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 (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1869), by Caroline H. Woods (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Ill Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2003), by Sasha Abramsky and Jamie Fellner (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
- National Training School for Boys, Washington, D. C. (ca. 1953), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
- Crime and the Community (originally published 1938; this edition New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1963), by Frank Tannenbaum, contrib. by Morris Ploscowe (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Crime of Crimes: or, The Convict System Unmasked (Washington: Pentecostal Era Co., 1907), by Clarissa Olds Keeler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1922), ed. by Hastings H. Hart (multiple formats at archive.org)
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