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• The Managed Casualty: The Japanese-American Family in World War II (University of California Publications in Culture and Society v6; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956), by Leonard Broom and John I. Kitsuse (page images at HathiTrust)
• War Relocation Centers: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-Eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 444, a Bill Providing for the Transfer of Certain Functions of the War Relocation Authority to the War Department (4 parts; Washington: GPO, 1943), by United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Democracy and Japanese Americans (New York: Post War World Council, ca. 1942), by Norman Thomas
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • PDF page images at MSU
• The War Relocation Work Corps: A Circular of Information for Enlistees and Their Families (ca. 1942), by United States War Relocation Authority (page images at HathiTrust)
• The College Nisei (Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1949), by Robert W. O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report and Minority Views of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on Japanese War Relocation Centers (1943), by United States House Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relocation of Japanese-Americans, by United States War Relocation Authority (PDF page images at MSU)

• The Evacuation and Relocation of Persons of Japanese Ancestry During World War II: A Historical Study of the Manzanar War Relocation Center (2 volumes; 1996), by Harlan D. Unrau (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Boer Concentration Camps of Bermuda (New York: J. A. Hassell, ca. 1902), by John A. Hassell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Enormous Room (along the lines of early editions: some French passages translated; expletives markedly censored, some manuscript passages omitted), by E. E. Cummings (Gutenberg text and HTML)

• The Enormous Room (along the lines of mid-20th-century editions: French passages untranslated; some English expletives still censored; some passages omitted in first edition restored), by E. E. Cummings (HTML at BYU)
• The Enormous Room (along the lines of early editions: some French passages translated; expletives markedly censored, some manuscript passages omitted), by E. E. Cummings (Gutenberg text and HTML)

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF and text at govinfo.gov
• Concentrations of Inhumanity: An Analysis of the Phenomena of Repression Associated with North Korea's Kwan-li-so Political Penal Labor Camps According to the Terms and Provisions of Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Parallel Provisions of Customary International law on Crimes Against Humanity (2007), by David R. Hawk (PDF at unhcr.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)

• Santo Tomas Internment Camp: Internews; Campus Health (compilation of issues of two Santo Tomas camp periodicals for internees, with commentary; New York: Relief for Americans in Philippines, c1942) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Slave Labor in Russia: The Case Presented by the American Federation of Labor to the United Nations (c1949), by American Federation of Labor (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Gas Vans: A Critical Investigation (Washington: Barnes Review, c2011), by Santiago Alvarez, contrib. by Pierre Marais (PDF at holocausthandbooks.com)
• Brains Behind Barbed Wire! Fate of Artists, Scholars, Scientists, Brain Workers Under Hitler-Fascism: A Collective Report (1934), by Bund Proletarisch-Revolutionärer Schriftsteller Deutschlands, trans. by Herbert Arthur Klein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Auschwitz Alphabet, by Jonathan Wallace (HTML at spectacle.org)
• The Holocaust Story and the Lies of Ulysses: A Study of the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Alleged Extermination of European Jewry (ca. 1977), by Paul Rassinier, trans. by Adam Robbins, contrib. by Pierre Hofstetter (HTML at ihr.org)

• The Nazi Tyranny: The Rise of the Third Reich; The Horror of the Concentration Camps; Judgment at Nuremberg; Never Before Published! Complete List of Nazi War Criminals, Many of Whom Are Still at Large (New York: Wykagyl Publications, c1961), ed. by Len Giovannitti, Yakov Adam, and Phillipe Citron (page images at HathiTrust)

• Behind the Wire: An Update to Ending Secret Detentions (New York: Human Rights First, 2004-2005), by Deborah Pearlstein and Priti Patel (PDF at The Rendition Project)
• 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)
• Habeas Corpus After 9/11: Confronting America's New Global Detention System (New York and London: New York University Press, c2011), by Jonathan Hafetz (PDF and Epub with commentary at OAPEN)
• U.S. Detention of Asylum Seekers: Seeking Protection, Finding Prison (New York et al.: Human Rights First, c2009), by Eleanor Acer and Jessica Chicco (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• In Liberty's Shadow: U.S. Detention of Asylum Seekers in the Era of Homeland Security (New York: Human Rights First, 2004), by Eleanor Acer and Archana Pyati (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Imbalance of Powers: How Changes to U.S. Law and Policy Since 9/11 Erode Human Rights and Civil Liberties (New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, c2003), by Fiona Doherty, Kenneth Hurwitz, Elisa Massimino, Michael McClintock, Raj Purohit, Cory Smith, and Rebecca Thornton (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• 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)
• 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)
• Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees (c2011), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• Deportation by Default: Mental Disability, Unfair Hearings, and Indefinite Detention in the US Immigration System (c2010), by Sarah Mehta (HTML at hrw.org)
• Locked Up Far Away: The Transfer of Immigrants to Remote Detention Centers in the United States (New York et al.: Human Rights Watch, c2009), by Alison Parker (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• Jailed Without Justice: Immigration Detention in the USA (ca. 2008), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnestyusa.org)
• United States: Locked Away: Immigration Detainees in Jails in the United States, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

• In Liberty's Shadow: U.S. Detention of Asylum Seekers in the Era of Homeland Security (New York: Human Rights First, 2004), by Eleanor Acer and Archana Pyati (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The September 11 Detainees: A Review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the September 11 Attacks, by United States Department of Justice (PDF at justice.gov)

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

• Delivered Into Enemy Hands: US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi's Libya (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2012), by Laura Pitter (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• 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)
• 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)

• Habeas Corpus After 9/11: Confronting America's New Global Detention System (New York and London: New York University Press, c2011), by Jonathan Hafetz (PDF and Epub with commentary at OAPEN)
• A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases and What Can be Done About Them (two parts, 2000 and 2002), by James S. Liebman, Jeffrey Fagan, and Valerie West (PDF files with commentary at the Justice Project)
• Habeas Works: Federal Courts' Proven Capacity to Handle Guantánamo Cases (2010), by Human Rights First (Organization) and Constitution Project (Georgetown Public Policy Institute) (PDF at constitutionproject.org)
• 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

• 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)

• Reforming Juvenile Detention: No More Hidden Closets (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), ed. by Ira M. Schwartz and William H. Barton (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

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