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• 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)

• 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)

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

• Iz moikh vospominanīi (Izd. V. Raspopova, 1906), by Ekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• Recollections and reflections (Saint Catherine Press, 1918), by Coles Pasha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Nihon kangoku kyōkaishi (880-02 Kyōto : Shinshū Honganji-ha Honganji : Shinshū Ōtani-ha Honganji, Shōwa 2 [1927], 1927), by Japan) Higashi Honganji (Kyoto and Japan) Nishi Honganji (Kyoto (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• Österreichische strafanstalten. (Wiener verlag, 1905), by Stefan Grossmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Österreichische strafanstalten. (Wiener verlag, 1905), by Stefan Grossmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada (c2012), by Ted McCoy (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• 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)

• 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)

• Tre mesi di prigionia a San Francesco ed alla Concordia : ricordi (F.lli de Angelis, 1869), by Gennaro De Angelis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Italian Prisons: St. Angelo; the Piombi; the Vicaria; Prisons of the Roman Inquisition, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)

• The powers that punish : prison and politics in the era of the "Big house," 1920-1955 (University of Michigan Press, 1996), by Charles Bright (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• The history of penal institutions in Ohio (F.J. Heer Printing Co., 1925), by Clara Belle Hicks (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historical sketches of the higher educational institutions, and also of benevolent and reformatory institutions of the state of Ohio. (State Comissioner of Common Schools], 1876), by Ohio. State Centennial Educational Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketches of the higher educational institutions, and also of benevolent and reformatory institutions of the state of Ohio. 1876. ([n.p., 1876), by Ohio. State Centennial Educational Committee and Pa.) Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Montreal prison from A.D. 1784 to A.D. 1886 (Periard, 1886), by J. Douglas Borthwick (page images at HathiTrust)

• An island hell: A Soviet prison in the far north, by S. A. Malʹsagov, trans. by F. H. Lyon (Gutenberg ebook)

• Russia in revolution (Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1905), by George Herbert Perris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Po ti͡urʹmam i ėtapam (Gos. izd-vo, 1922), by I. Genkin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Russian Prisons: St. Peter and St. Paul; the Schlüsselburg; the Ostrog at Omsk; the story of Siberian exile; Tiumen, Tomsk, Saghalien, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)

• Iz istorīi Russkoĭ ti︠u︡rʹmy : lekt︠s︡īi︠a︡, prochitannai︠a︡ 29 marta 1905 g. I.V. Mi︠e︡shchaninovym. ([s.n.], 1905), by I. V. Mi︠e︡shchaninov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Spanish Prisons: The Inquisition at Home and Abroad, Prisons Past and Present, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)

• The development of American prisons and prison customs, 1776-1845, with special reference to early institutions in the State of New York. (Prison Association of New York, 1922), by Orlando Faulkland Lewis and Correctional Association of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prisons Over Seas: Deportation and Colonization; British and American Prisons of To-day, 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)

• A history of the State Board of Control of Wisconsin and the state institutions, 1849-1939 (State Board of Control, 1939), by Bernett O. Odegard and George Mason Keith (page images at HathiTrust)

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