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• 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)

• Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, c2008), by Viviane Saleh-Hanna (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• 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)

• "Not Part of My Sentence": Violations of the Human Rights of Women in Custody (1999), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Detained and Denied in Afghanistan: How to Make U.S. Detention Comply With the Law (New York: Human Rights First, c2011), by Daphne Eviatar (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Arbitrary Justice: Trial of Guantánamo and Bagram Detainees in Afghanistan (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Sahr MuhammedAlly (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Arbitrary Justice: Trial of Guantánamo and Bagram Detainees in Afghanistan (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Sahr MuhammedAlly (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, c2008), by Viviane Saleh-Hanna (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

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

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

• Investigation Into the Office of Legal Counsel's Memoranda Concerning Issues Relating to the Central Intelligence Agency's Use of "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" on Suspected Terrorists (redacted for public release, 2009), by United States Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• 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)

• Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, Together With Foreword by Chairman Feinstein, and Additional and Minority Views (redacted declassified summary version released 2014), by United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, contrib. by Dianne Feinstein, John D. Rockefeller, Ron Wyden, Mark Udall, Martin Heinrich, Angus King, Susan Collins, Saxby Chambliss, Richard M. Burr, James E. Risch, Daniel R. Coats, Marco Rubio, and Tom A. Coburn (PDF at senate.gov)
• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)

• Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror (New York: Institute on Medicine as a Profession, c2013), by Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers (PDF with commentary at imapny.org)

• Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees (c2011), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• Command's Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan (New York: Human Rights First, 2006), by Hina Shamsi, ed. by Deborah Pearlstein (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Presidential Accountability in Wartime: President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Stuart Streichler (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)

• Detention Abuses Staining the New Libya (2011), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• The Battle for Libya: Killings, Disappearances and Torture (2011), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Bird-Self Accumulated (New York and London: New York University Press, 1996), by Don Judson (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge": An Annotated Critical Edition (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, c2003), by Ambrose Bierce, ed. by Robert C. Evans (frame-dependent HTML and page images at ambrosebierce.org)
• A Long Day in a Short Life (New York: International Publishers, c1957), by Albert Maltz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Convict: A Tale (London: Simms and M'Intyre, 1851), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text)
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce (Gutenberg text)
• Botany Bay: or, True Tales of Early Australia, by John Lang (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)
• For the Term of His Natural Life, by Marcus Clarke (Gutenberg text)
• For the Term of His Natural Life (London: R. Bentley and Son, 1892), by Marcus Clarke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• For the Term of His Natural Life (London and New York: Macmillan, 1899), by Marcus Clarke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Star Rover (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1915), by Jack London (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Vicar of Wakefield (main text from 1903 A. and C. Black edition; illustrations and accompanying essays from various editions), by Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by Louise Hope, contrib. by Joseph Grego, John Forster, and Austin Dobson, illust. by John Massey Wright, Margaret Jameson, and William Mulready (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• 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)

• The Adventures of Jack Pomeroy: A Book for Boys, by Peter William Darnton (page images at ufl.edu)
• The Kangaroo Hunters, or, Adventures in the Bush (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1859), by Anne Bowman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lily and the Cross: A Tale of Acadia (Boston: Lee and Shepard, c1874), by James De Mille
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Log of a Privateersman, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)

• Understanding Offending: Prisoners and Rehabilitation in Malawi (2005), by Patrick Burton, Eric Pelser, and Lameck Gondwe (PDF with commentary at issafrica.org)

• 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

• 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)

• The Prevention of Repeated Crime (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; Chicago: Callaghan and Co., 1943), by John Barker Waite (PDF with commentary at Michigan)
• Beating Back (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1914), by Al Jennings and Will Irwin, illust. by Charles M. Russell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• We Who Are About to Die: Prison As Seen by a Condemned Man (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1935), by David Lamson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Political Persecution Today (International Committee for Political Prisoners, 1925), by International Committee for Political Prisoners (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons: The Unconscious Meanings of Crime and Punishment (New York and London: New York University Press, c1996), by Martha Grace Duncan (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, With Reservations, if Any, by Governments Participating in Hostilities in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1970) (PDF files at ttu.edu)
• Symposium on Human Problems in the Utilization of Fallout Shelters (1960) (multiple formats at archive.org)

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