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• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Recollections of Life and Work: Being the Autobiography of Louisa Twining (London: E. Arnold, 1893), by Louisa Twining
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• I Knew Them in Prison (New York: Viking Press, 1936), by Mary B. Harris (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• No Place for Kids: The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration (Baltimore: Annie E. Casey Foundation, c2011), by Richard A. Mendel (PDF with commentary at aecf.org)

• Comparison of Rights in Military Commission Trials and Trials in Federal Criminal Court (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2010), by Jennifer Elsea (PDF with commentary at opencrs.com)
• Working with the Courts in Child Protection (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by William G. Jones (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)

• Order of Procedure in Naval General Courts Martial, Compiled From Various Orders, Regulations, and Instructions, Which Have Been Issued From Time to Time by the Naval Bureau of Justice, and From Other Sources, for the Convenience of Novitiating Judge Advocates (Washington: Powell and Ginck, 1873), contrib. by United States Navy Department (rotated page images at HathiTrust)

• Decisions of the United States Court of Military Appeals, by United States Court of Military Appeals (partial serial archives)

• Annual Report, by United States Court of Military Appeals and United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, contrib. by United States Code Committee on Military Justice (full serial archives)
• Military Law Review (partial serial archives)

• Proceedings of the Military Court of Inquiry, in the Case of Major General Scott and Major General Gaines (1837), by United States Army Court of Inquiry (Scott : 1836-1837) and United States Army Court of Inquiry (Gaines : 1836-1837)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• President Lincoln's Views: An Important Letter on the Principles Involved in the Vallandigham Case (Philadelphia: King and Baird, 1863), by Abraham Lincoln
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts: 2009 Update and Recent Developments (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2009), by Richard B. Zabel and James J. Benjamin (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Richard B. Zabel and James J. Benjamin (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, by United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (HTML at Albany)
• Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals" (2 volumes; Washington: National Academies Press, 1986), ed. by Alfred Blumstein
  • Volume I: page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume II: page images with commentary at NAP

• Federal Offenders in the United States District Courts (full serial archives)
• Federal Prisons, by United States Bureau of Prisons (full serial archives)

• The War on Marijuana in Black and White (with correction made Sep 2013; New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 2013), by Ezekiel Edwards, Will Bunting, and Lynda Garcia (PDF with commentary at aclu.org)

• The Illinois Crime Survey (1929), by Illinois Association for Criminal Justice (PDF files with commentary at Northwestern)

• Report of the City Council Committee on Crime of the City of Chicago (1915), by Chicago City Council Committee on Crime (PDF files at Northwestern)

• Working with the Courts in Child Protection (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by William G. Jones (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• Standards for Juvenile and Family Courts (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Welfare Administration, Children's Bureau, 1966), by William Henry Sheridan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Revolt of Modern Youth (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925), by Ben B. Lindsey and Wainwright Evans
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities Reported by Youth, 2008-09 (Washington: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2010), by Allen J. Beck, Paige M. Harrison, and Paul Guerino (PDF and text with commentary at bjs.gov)

• Accuracy Counts: Incarcerated People and the Census (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2004), by Patricia E. Allard and Kirsten D. Levingston (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• 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)

• Dangerous Convictions: An Introduction to Extremist Activities in Prisons (c2002), by Anti-defamation League (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by James McGrath Morris (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• The Road (New York: Macmillan, 1907), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

• The Stolen Years (Cleveland: Pennington Press, c1959), by Roger Touhy, contrib. by Ray Brennan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences (2014), by National Research Council Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration, ed. by Jeremy Travis, Bruce Western, and F. Stevens Redburn (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Rebuilding Families, Reclaiming Lives: State Obligations to Children in Foster Care and Their Incarcerated Parents (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2006), by Patricia E. Allard and Lynn D. Lu (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• The Crime of Crimes: or, The Convict System Unmasked (Washington: Pentecostal Era Co., 1907), by Clarissa Olds Keeler (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)

• 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)

• Inquiry Into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody (redacted unclassified version; 2008), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services
  • PDF at senate.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Open Letter to President Harding, by Industrial Workers of the World (PDF page images at MSU)

• The Battle Behind the Wire: U.S. Prisoner and Detainee Operations from World War II to Iraq (MG-934-OSD; c2011), by Cheryl Benard, Edward O'Connell, Cathryn Quantic Thurston, Andrés Villamizar, Elvira N. Loredo, Thomas Sullivan, and Jeremiah Goulka (PDF with commentary at rand.org)
• Permitting Bataan Death March Prisoners to Sue in U.S. Court of Claims: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 3188 (Washington: GPO, 1984), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, by Virginia Clay-Clopton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Caught in the Net: The Impact of Drug Policies on Women and Families (New York: ACLU; Brennan Center for Justice; Break the Chains, ca. 2005), by Lenora M. Lapidus, Namita Luthra, Anjuli Verma, Deborah Small, Patricia E. Allard, and Kirsten D. Levingston, contrib. by Andrea J. Ritchie (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Woman in Prison (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1869), by Caroline H. Woods (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• The Kansas Inferno: A Study of the Criminal Problem, by a Life Prisoner; A Description of the Kansas Prison As It Is and As It Should Be (Wichita: Wonderland Pub Co., c1906), by Russell C. Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)

• Convict Life at the Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater, Minnesota (second edition, with Younger's "Real Facts About the Northfield, Minnesota, Bank Robbery"; St. Paul: W. C. Heilbron, 1909), by William Casper Heilbron, contrib. by Cole Younger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Youngers' Fight for Freedom: A Southern Soldier's Twenty Years' Campaign to Open Northern Prison Doors, With Anecdotes of War Days (Columbia, MO: Printed for the author by E. W. Stephens Pub. Co., 1906), by W. C. Bronaugh
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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)

• Rebuilding Families, Reclaiming Lives: State Obligations to Children in Foster Care and Their Incarcerated Parents (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2006), by Patricia E. Allard and Lynn D. Lu (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Care and Punishment: The Dilemmas of Prison Medicine (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1988), by Curtis Prout and Robert N. Ross (page images at Pitt)
• 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)

• Practical, Sharp, Eccentric and Humorous Prison-Life Thoughts! (Philadelphia: Landis publishing society, 1872), by Simon M. Landis (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.