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• Lytton, Constance, Lady, 1869-1923
• O'Donovan Rossa, Jeremiah, 1831-1915

• 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 at archive.org)

• Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences (London: William Heinemann, 1914), by Constance Lytton (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Life and Letters of Lady Arabella Stuart, Including Numerous Original and Unpublished Documents (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866), by Elizabeth Cooper, contrib. by Arabella Stuart (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)

• Inside Time (partial serial archives)

• Inside Time (partial serial archives)

• The Prisoners of Australia: A Narrative (London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1841), by Charlotte Anley (multiple formats at Google)

• Captive Royal Children (London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1911), by Grace I. Whitham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Life and Letters of Lady Arabella Stuart, Including Numerous Original and Unpublished Documents (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866), by Elizabeth Cooper, contrib. by Arabella Stuart (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)

• 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)

• Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1905), by Florence Elizabeth Maybrick (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences (London: William Heinemann, 1914), by Constance Lytton (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

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)

• 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)

• 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
• Le Vagabond des Étoiles (The Star Rover in French; Paris: G. Grès et cie, 1925), by Jack London, trans. by Paul Gruyer and Louis Postif (Gutenberg text)
• 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)

• Care and Punishment: The Dilemmas of Prison Medicine (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1988), by Curtis Prout and Robert N. Ross (page images at Pitt)
• Confronting Confinement: A Report of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons (2006), by Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons, contrib. by John J. Gibbons and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach (PDF with commentary at vera.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)

• Hamas' Hostages, Putin's Prisoners, and Freeing International Captives: Toward Stronger U.S. and Global Action for International Political Prisoner Day (Washington: GPO, 2023), by United States Congress Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (PDF at govinfo.gov)
• 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)

• Hamas' Hostages, Putin's Prisoners, and Freeing International Captives: Toward Stronger U.S. and Global Action for International Political Prisoner Day (Washington: GPO, 2023), by United States Congress Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (PDF at govinfo.gov)
• 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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