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• Report of the Wisconsin Monument Commission appointed to erect a monument at Andersonville, Georgia, with other interesting matter pertaining to the prison. (The Commission, 1911), by Wisconsin. Andersonville Monument Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Political prisoners in federal military prisons. (National Civil Liberties Bureau, 1918), by National Civil Liberties Bureau (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prisoners of war in Britain 1756 to 1815; a record of their lives, their romance and their sufferings (H. Milford, 1914), by Francis Abell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rules and regulations of the district military prisons, January 1st, 1846. (s.n.], 1846), by Great Britain War Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uniform treatment of prisoners under the Military correctional facilities act currently not being achieved, Department of Defense : report to the Congress (U.S. General Accounting Office, 1975), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guardhouses and confinement facilities. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1946), by United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• In confinement. (Headquarters, Dept of the Army, 1974), by United States. Army. Self-Development Program (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Detainee operations inspection (Bernan, 2004), by United States. Department of the Army. Office of the Inspector General (page images at HathiTrust)
• Non-Criminal Prisons: English Debtor's Prisons and Prisons of War; French War Prisons; American War Prisons with References to Those of Other Lands, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)

• Biribi: Discipline militaire (in French), by Georges Darien (Gutenberg ebook)

• Report of Andersonville Monument Commission (Democrat Printing Co., 1911), by Wisconsin. Andersonville Monument Commission, Carl Sandburg, and Wis.) Democrat Printing Co. (Madison (page images at HathiTrust)

• Extracts from the Reports of the Committee on the Question of providing Military Prisons, with an Appendix. (L., 1847), by Great Britain. Home Office. Committees. Military prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815: A record of their lives, their romance and their sufferings, by Francis Abell (Gutenberg ebook)

• Carceri militari centrali. (Bernardoni, 1874), by Antonio Buccellati (page images at HathiTrust)

• Consideration of H.R. 5783, H.R. 15971, S. 2634, H.R. 2629, H.R. 2632, H.R. 11466, H.R. 13050, H.R. 13593, H.R. 14739, H.R. 15863, H.R. 15865, H.R. 1093, H.R. 10897, H.R. 15348, H.R. 15231, H.R. 10573, H.R. 15789, and H.J. Res. 1224, to authorize the President to reappoint as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for an additional term of 1 year, the officer serving in that position on April 1, 1968 ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1968), by United States House Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Consideration of H.R. 5783, to amend Titles 10, 14, and 37, United States code, to provide for confinement and treatment of offenders against the Uniform code of military justice ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1968), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)

• Stray shots. (U.S. Military Prison, 1913), by Kansas United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Resolution of inquiry regarding pictures, photographs, videos, communications, and reports produced in conjunction with Department of Defense investigations relating to allegations of torture or allegations of violations of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq or relating to the abuse or alleged abuse of a prisoner of war or detainee by any civilian contractor working in Iraq who is employed on behalf of the Department of Defense : adverse report of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, on H. Res. 640, together with dissenting views. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2004), by United States House Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Directing the Secretary of State to transmit to the House of Representatives documents in the possession of the Secretary of State relating to the treatment of prisoners and detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay : adverse report, together with dissenting views (to accompany H. Res. 699). (U.S. G.P.O., 2004), by United States House Committee on International Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resolution of inquiry requesting the President and directing certain other federal officials to transmit to the House of Representatives not later than 14 days after the date of adoption of this resolution documents in the possession of the President and those officials relating to the treatment of prisoners or detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Guantanamo Bay : adverse report of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, on H. Res. 689, together with additional and dissenting views. (U.S. G.P.O., 2004), by United States House Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confinement of military prisoners. (Washington, 1961), by United States. Dept. of the Army (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Detainee operations inspection (Bernan, 2004), by United States. Department of the Army. Office of the Inspector General (page images at HathiTrust)

• Review of Department of Defense detention and interrogation operations : hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, May 7, 11, 19, July 22, September 9, 2004. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2005), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of Department of Defense detention and interrogation policy and operations in the Global War on Terrorism : hearings before the Committee on Armed Services and Subcommittee on Personnel of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, March 10, July 13, 14, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Personnel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Subcommittee hearing on H.R. 2735, to authorize the transfer of certain military prisoners and confinement facilities to the control and management of the Attorney General ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1951), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 3 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Full committee hearing on H.R. 662, H.R. 1199, H.R. 1200, H.R. 1201, H.R. 1203, H.R. 2736, H.R. 2737, H.R. 1179, H.R. 2735, H.R. 1181, H.R. 1215, H.R. 1216, S. 927, H.R. 3911 ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1951), by United States House Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les bagnes : histoire, types, moeurs, mystères (G. Havard, 1845), by Maurice Alhoy and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertatio juridica inauguralis ... de poena carceris, quam ... (Apud H.W. Hazenberg & Socios, 1839), by Henricus Franciscus de Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur geschichte graubündens. [Pt.] i. (L. Hitz, 1862), by Peter Kaiser (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ode inscribed to John Howard (D. Huntington, 1814), by John Aikin, William Hayley, and Davis & Force's Washington Circulating Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oriental Prisons: Prisons and Crime in India, the Andaman Islands, Burmah, China, Japan, Egypt, Turkey, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)

• Freiheitsstrafe und Gefängniswesen in Österreich von der Theresiana bis zur Gegenwart (U. Moser, 1916), by Hugo Hoegel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Österreichische strafanstalten. (Wiener verlag, 1905), by Stefan Grossmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• German and Austrian Prisons: Prisons of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Austria-Hungary; the Fortresses of Magdeburg and Spielberg, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)

• International prison reform ([n.p., 1876), by E. C. Wines (page images at HathiTrust)

• Irish Rebels in English Prisons: A Record of Prison Life (New York: P. J. Kenedy, 1899), by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (multiple formats at archive.org)

• John Howard and the prison-world of Europe (Jackson and Walford, 1850), by William Hepworth Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les établissements pénitentiaires en France et aux colonies (M. Lévy Frères, 1875), by comte d' Haussonville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires de Linguet sur la Bastille, et de Dusaulx, sur le 14 juillet : avec des notices, des notes et des eclaircissemens historiques (Baudouin frères, 1822), by Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet, Jean Dusaulx, Fs. Barrière, St.-A. Berville, and John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tortures et supplices en France (H. Daragon, 1909), by Fernand Mitton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le Monde criminel : histoire des prisons d'État, des prisons criminelles, des bagnes et de leurs habitants. (B. Renault, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Légendes et archives de la Bastille (Librairie Hachette et cie, 1902), by Frantz Funck-Brentano and Victorien Sardou (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern French Prisons: Bicêtre; St. Pélagie; St. Lazare; La Force; The Conciergerie; La Grande and La Petite Roquettes; Mazas; La Santé, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)
• Early French Prisons: Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes; The Bastile; Loches; The Galleys; Revolutionary Prisons, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)
• Non-Criminal Prisons: English Debtor's Prisons and Prisons of War; French War Prisons; American War Prisons with References to Those of Other Lands, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)

• German and Austrian Prisons: Prisons of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Austria-Hungary; the Fortresses of Magdeburg and Spielberg, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)

• An account of the principal lazarettos in Europe : with various papers relative to the plague, together with further observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals, and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland (Printed for J. Johnson, D. Dilly, and T. Cadell, 1791), by John Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prisons Over Seas: Deportation and Colonization; British and American Prisons of To-day, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)
• Millbank Penitentiary: An Experiment in Reformation, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)
• Non-Criminal Prisons: English Debtor's Prisons and Prisons of War; French War Prisons; American War Prisons with References to Those of Other Lands, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)

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