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• No More Excuses: A Roadmap to Justice for CIA Torture (New York et al.: Human Rights Watch, 2015), by Laura Pitter and Leslie Haskell (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

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• Convict 99: A True Story of Penal Servitude (London: Grant Richards, 1898), by Marie Connor Leighton and Robert Leighton, illust. by Stanley L. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Jew Detective: or, The Beautiful Convict (Beadle's New York Dime Library #662; New York: Beadle and Adams, 1891), by Prentiss Ingraham (mlutiple formats at niu.edu)
• Caleb Williams, or Things As They Are, by William Godwin, contrib. by Ernest A. Baker (Gutenberg text)
• Things As They Are: or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (fourth edition; London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1816), by William Godwin (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• 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)
• Jailed Without Justice: Immigration Detention in the USA (ca. 2008), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnestyusa.org)
• Doing Time on the Outside: Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Donald Braman (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies (Hamlyn Lectures, #59; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2008), by Nicola Lacey (PDF in the UK)

• Under Arrest! Workers' Self-Defense in the Courts (pamphlet #5; ca. 1933), by International Labor Defense (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Criminal Justice Debt: A Toolkit for Action (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2012), by Roopal Patel and Meghna Philip (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• The Real Jail Problem (Chicago: Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago, 1915), by Edith Abbott
  • multiple formats at Google
  • without cover; page images at HathiTrust

• Doing Time on the Outside: Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Donald Braman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tort Law: A 21st Century Approach (2021), by Zahr K. Said (HTML with commentary at cali.org)
• Torts: Cases, Principles, and Institutions (fourth edition; Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2019), by John Fabian Witt and Karen M. Tani (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Torts: Cases and Context (2 volumes; Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2015-2016), by Eric E. Johnson
  • Volume 1: multiple formats with commentary at cali.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats with commentary at cali.org
• Suing the Gun Industry: A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Timothy D. Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Property (2 volumes; Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2012), by Christian Turner
  • Volume 1: multiple formats with commentary at cali.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats with commentary at cali.org
• A Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts (new edition; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1919), by James Barr Ames, Jeremiah Smith, and Roscoe Pound (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Federal Trade Commission Decisions, by United States Federal Trade Commission (partial serial archives)

• White Collar Crime (New York: Dryden Press, c1949), by Edwin H. Sutherland (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hearings Regarding H.R. 15678, H.R. 15689, H.R. 15744, H.R. 15754, and H.R. 16099, Bills to Curb Terrorist Organizations (Washington: GPO, 1966), by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities (page images at HathiTrust)

• Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters, volume 1: Investigations and Prosecutions, by Lawrence E. Walsh (HTML at fas.org)

• Samuel D. Davis, Appellant, v. H.G. Beason, Sheriff of Oneida County, Idaho Territory: Brief for Appellant (prepared for argument in the US Supreme Court; 1889), by Franklin S. Richards, Jeremiah M. Wilson, and Samuel Shellabarger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Argument of William H. Seward, in Defence of Abel F. Fitch and Others, Under an Indictment for Arson, by William H. Seward (page images at MOA)

• Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1951, No. 111: Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg, Petitioners, vs. the United States of America; No. 112: Morton Sobell, Petitioner, vs. the United States of America: Petitions for Writs of Certiorari and Exhibit Thereto, Filed June 7, 1952 (transcript of record, including records of trial and appeals; 2 volumes in 8; ca. 1960) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Defence of John Ury, Made Before the Supream Court in New-York, at His Tryal for Being Concerned in the Late Negro-Conspiracy (Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, 1741), by John Ury (HTML at Evans TCP)

• A Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy Formed by Some White People, in Conjunction With Negro and Other Slaves, for Burning the City of New-York in America, and Murdering the Inhabitants (New-York: Printed by J. Parker, 1744), by Daniel Horsmanden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• The Negro Conspiracy in The City of New York, in 1741: Containing a Full Account of the Burning of the Fort, Government House, Chapel, Hall of Records, and the Firing of Many Other Buildings in the City of New York; With an Account of the Arrest, Indictment, Trial and Execution of Thirty-Three of the Conspirators, Thirteen of Whom Were Burned at the Stake (New York: G. W. Schott, 1851), by Daniel Horsmanden, ed. by William B. Wedgwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New-York Conspiracy, or, A History of the Negro Plot, With the Journal of the Proceedings Against the Conspirators at New-York in the Years 1741-2 (second edition; New York: Southwick and Pelsue, 1810), by Daniel Horsmanden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at loc.gov

• The Black Panther Party and the Case of the New York 21, by Charter Group for a Pledge of Conscience (PDF page images at MSU)
• What Do the Panthers Stand For, by Committee to Defend the Panther 21 (PDF page images at MSU)

• Gastonia: A Class Case and a Class Verdict (1929), by International Labor Defense, contrib. by John Louis Engdahl (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Proceedings in the Ku Klux Trials at Columbia, S.C., in the United States Circuit Court, November Term, 1871 (printed from government copy; Columbia, SC: Republican Printing Co., 1872), by United States 4th Circuit Court, ed. by Benn Pitman and Louis F. Post
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy Formed by Some White People, in Conjunction With Negro and Other Slaves, for Burning the City of New-York in America, and Murdering the Inhabitants (New-York: Printed by J. Parker, 1744), by Daniel Horsmanden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine: Health Care Fraud and What to Do About It (Ithaca, NY and London: ILR Press, c2011), by Terry L. Leap (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Diversity Visa Program: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, June 15, 2005 (Washington: GPO, 2005), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diversity Visa Program and its Susceptibility to Fraud and Abuse: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, April 29, 2004 (Washington: GPO, 2004), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fighting Fraud: Top Scams in 2021, by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at senate.gov)

• Fighting Fraud: Top Scams in 2021, by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at senate.gov)

• Cases on the Law of Bankruptcy, Including the Law of Fraudulent Conveyances (Chicago: Callaghan and Co., 1915), ed. by Evans Holbrook and Ralph W. Aigler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fighting Fraud: Top Scams in 2021, by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at senate.gov)

• The Browder Case: A Summary of Facts; A Brief for Justice and Fair Play in America (1941), by Citizens' Committee to Free Earl Browder (New York) (PDF at flvc.org)

• Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides With the States (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by John T. Noonan (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Execution's Doorstep: True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2008), by Leslie Lytle (multiple formats at Northeastern and archive.org)

• Police Brutality: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, March 20 and April 17, 1991 (Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coming Clean: Superfund Problems Can Be Solved... (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Hazardous Waste Contamination of Water Resources (Superfund Clean-Up Policy and the Seymour Recycling Case): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, March 13, 14, 15, 1984: Witnesses, Office of Technology Assessment, Industry (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States House Committee on Public Works and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)

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