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• A second chronicle of jails (The Talbot press, 1919), by Darrell Figgis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penal servitude (W. Heinemann, 1903), by William Beauchamp Nevill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réflexions sur l'œuvre des prisons (M.P. Rusand, 1833), by Stylite de Kersabiec (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heures de prison (Librairie nouvelle, 1854), by Marie Lafarge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six Years in the Prisons of England, ed. by Frank Henderson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Zuchthausgeschichten von einem ehemaligen Züchtling: Zweiter Theil (in German), by Joseph M. Hägele, contrib. by Alban Stolz (Gutenberg ebook)
• Zuchthausgeschichten von einem ehemaligen Züchtling: Erster Theil (in German), by Joseph M. Hägele, contrib. by Alban Stolz (Gutenberg ebook)

• My Life Out of Prison (New York and London: M. Kennerley, 1915), by Donald Lowrie
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• Ups and downs of a "crook's" life (The Author, 1889), by Samuel A. Bailey and N.Y.) Clinton Prison (Dannemora (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old convict days (T. F. Unwin, 1899), by William Derricourt and Louis Becke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old Convict Days (1899), by William Derricourt, ed. by Louis Becke
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• The Life and Experiences of an Ex-Convict in Port Macquarie, by Woomera (Gutenberg ebook)

• Old Convict Days (1899), by William Derricourt, ed. by Louis Becke
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• My Life in Prison (New York and London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1912), by Donald Lowrie
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• Among the broad-arrow men : a plain account of English prison life (A. & C. Black, 1924), by B. 2. 15 (page images at HathiTrust)

• La vie à la Bastille : souvenirs d'un prisonnier (L. Michaud, 1908), by René Augustin Constantin de Renneville and Albert Savine (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prisoners in France : containing observations on their manners and habits, principally with reference to their religious state, during nine years' residence in the depôts of Fontainbleau, Verdun, Givet, and Valenciennes (J. Hatchard, 1830), by R. B. Wolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Molière à Bordeaux, et ses fins dernières à Paris. (Libraires associés, 1898), by Anatole Loquin (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'homme au masque de fer, mémoire historique, ou l'on refute les différentes opinions relatives à ce personnage mystérieux, et ou l'on démontre que ce prisonnier fut une victime des Jésuites (Imprimerie de Gaultier-Laguionie, 1825), by Jean de Taulès (page images at HathiTrust)
• Molière à Bordeaux vers 1647 et en 1656 : avec des considérations nouvelles sur ses fins dernières, à Paris en 1673, ou peut-être en 1703 (Libraires associés, 1898), by Anatole Loquin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deux mois de villégiature forcée (J.B. Jung, 1910), by Emile Wetterlé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Madame Lafarge, voleuse de diamants : [Le vrai Claude Gueux] (Plon-Nourrit, 1914), by Louis André (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La Déportation de 1871: Souvenirs d'un Évadé de Nouméa (in French; Paris: G. Charpentier et cie, 1889), by Achille Ballière (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorie autobiografiche (Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei refrattari, 1929), by Clément Duval (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs d'un prisonnier d'état sous le second empire (C. Muquardt, 1869), by Jean Baptiste Boichot and Paul Gérente (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rudolph Zacharias Becker's Leiden und Freuden in siebzehnmonatlicher französischer Gefangenschaft (Becker, 1814), by Rudolph Zacharias Becker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Derniers momens des plus illustres personnages français : condamnés à mort pour délits politiques ... recueillis et rédigés d'après les chroniques et journaux du temps (A. Eymery :, 1818), by Léon Thiessé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs d'un prisonnier d'État, 1854-1859 (Librairie du progrès, 1880), by Jean Baptiste Boichot (page images at HathiTrust)

• Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences (London: William Heinemann, 1914), by Constance Lytton (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Quatre ans de prison (J. Bonhoure, [1880], 1880), by Valérie Boissier de Gasparin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fogságom története (in Hungarian), by Farkas Deák (Gutenberg ebook)

• A genuine narrative of the deplorable deaths of the English gentlemen, and others, who were suffocated in the Black-Hole in Fort-William, at Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal, in the night succeeding the 20th day of June, 1756, in a letter to a friend (A. Millar, 1758), by J. Z. Holwell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ikijigoku (Hidaka Yūrindō, 1910), by Rokunosuke Koyama (page images at HathiTrust)

• Prison life and reflections : or, A narrative of the arrest, trial, conviction, imprisonment, treatment, observations, reflections, and deliverance of Work, Burr, and Thompson, who suffered an unjust and cruel imprisonment in Missouri penitentiary, for attempting to aid some slaves to liberty ... (Published by the author at the United Brethren Printing Establishment, 1857), by George Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Room with the Little Door, by Roland Burnham Molineux (Gutenberg ebook)

• Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2008), by Osa Eribo, Chris Affor, Sylvester Monday Anagaba, O. Oko Elechi, Unyierie Idem, Mechthild Nagel, Julia Sudbury, Chukwuma Ume, Biko Agozino, Clever Akporherhe, Igho Odibo, and Uju Agomoh, ed. by Viviane Saleh-Hanna (JSTOR ebook)

• The life of George L. Smith, North Carolina's ex-convict : boldest and bravest blind tiger man, who has run blind tigers in nearly every town in North Carolina ... (s.n., in the 1910s), by George L. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Through the Shadows With O. Henry (New York: H. K. Fly Co., c1921), by Al Jennings
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• Confessions of Geo. P. Beale and Geo. Baker hung at Salem, Oregon, May 17, 1865, for the murder of Daniel Delaney, Sen., on the 9th day of January, 1865. (Oregon Statesman Power Press, 1865), by George P. Beale, George Baker, and Oregon Statesman Power Press (page images at HathiTrust)

• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (New York: Mother Earth Publishing Assn., 1912), by Alexander Berkman
  • HTML at Pitzer
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• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (second edition; New York: Mother Earth Publishing Assn., 1920), by Alexander Berkman
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
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• The truth about Oscar Slater : with the prisoner's own story (Psychic Press, 1926), by William Park (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• An island hell: A Soviet prison in the far north, by S. A. Mal'sagov, trans. by F. H. Lyon (Gutenberg ebook)

• Adventures of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw of Mitrowitz. What he saw in the Turkish metropolis, Constantinople; experienced in his captivity; and after his happy return to his country, committed to writing in the year of our Lord 1599. (Bell & Daldy, 1862), by Václav Vratislav z Mitrovic and Albert Henry Wratislaw (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 story of a proletarian life (Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1924), by Bartolomeo Vanzetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love can open prison doors (Melrose Press, 1943), by Starr Daily (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love can open prison doors (Melrose Press, 1941), by Starr Daily (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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