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• 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)

• Industrial training of children in houses of refuge and other reformatory schools (Argus Co., printers, 1883), by William Pryor Letchworth (page images at HathiTrust)

• An address delivered at the opening of the new building of the White Female Department of the House of Refuge, January 20th, 1872. ([Philadelphia], 1872), by Thomas A. Budd (page images at HathiTrust)

• Their Sisters' Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1981), by Estelle B. Freedman (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)

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

• 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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• 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)
• 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)
• Crucibles of Crime: The Shocking Story of the American Jail (New York: Cosmopolis Press, 1923), by Joseph F. Fishman and Vee Perlman (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Prison Reform in the United States (New York: National Printing Co., 1877) (page images at MOA)
• Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States (Philadelphia: Joseph Kite and Co., 1845), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (multiple formats at Google)
• Woman in Prison (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1869), by Caroline H. Woods (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• 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)
• National Training School for Boys, Washington, D. C. (ca. 1953), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime and the Community (originally published 1938; this edition New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1963), by Frank Tannenbaum, contrib. by Morris Ploscowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Crime of Crimes: or, The Convict System Unmasked (Washington: Pentecostal Era Co., 1907), by Clarissa Olds Keeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1922), ed. by Hastings H. Hart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Prison leaflets ... (National Committee., 1915), by National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of American prisons and reformatories. (The Osborne Association, inc[etc.], 1925), by William Thomas Root, Frederick Lovell Bixby, William Bankard Cox, Austin Harbutt MacCormick, Paul W. Garrett, George Washington Kirchwey, Thomas Mott Osborne, Osborne Association, and National Society of Penal Information (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report presented to the annual meeting ... (New York., in the 20th century), by National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison population and policy choices (National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminaal Justice], 1977), by Andrew Rutherford, Abt Associates, and National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political prisoners : racism and the politics of imprisonment (The Council?], 1981), by United States. National Minority Advisory Council on Criminal Justice, A.L. Nellum and Associates, and United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jails. A paper read at the Convention of the county agents of the State Board of Corrections and Charities of Michigan, held at Kalamazoo, December 9th and 10th, 1884 ... ([Press of O.S. Gulley, Bornman & Co.], 1885), by Levi Lewis Barbour (page images at HathiTrust)
• Assessment of coeducational corrections (National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, U.S. Dept. of Justice : [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1978), by Koba Associates (page images at HathiTrust)
• The silent South, together with The freedman's case in equity and The convict lease system (C. Scribner's Sons, 1885), by George Washington Cable (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the annual congress of correction. (American Correctional Association [etc.], in the 19th century), by American Correctional Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulletin. ([S.l.], 1922), by National Society of Penal Information and Osborne Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stone walls not a prison make; the anatomy of planned administrative change. (C. C. Thomas, 1962), by Joseph W. Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criminology (Longmans, Green and co., 1934), by Albert Morris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Criminology (J. B. Lippincott, 1924), by Edwin Hardin Sutherland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Principles of criminology (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1934), by Edwin Hardin Sutherland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American prisons in turmoil : Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, first [and second] session[s]. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1972), by United States House Select Committee on Crime (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal penal and reformatory institutions. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1929), by United States. Congress. House. Special committee on federal penal and reformatory institutions (page images at HathiTrust)
• You can escape (The Macmillan company, 1929), by Edward H. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The repression of crime; studies in historical penology (George H. Doran Company, 1926), by Harry Elmer Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison reform (The H.W. Wilson company, 1917), by Corinne Bacon and Thomas Mott Osborne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The passing of the county jail (George Banta Publishing Co., 1920), by Stuart Alfred Queen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plans and illustrations of prisons and reformatories (Russell Sage Foundation, 1922), by Hastings H. Hart and American Correctional Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Progress report. ([Washington, 1937), by United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Wisconsin Prison labor investigating committee. (Madison, 1929), by Wisconsin. Legislature. Prison labor investigating committee and Oscar Haskell Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Osborne of Sing Sing (The University of North Carolina press, 1933), by Frank Tannenbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Propagating crime through the jail and other insitutions for short-term offenders ([New York?, 1928), by National crime commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years of prison service. (Charities publication committee, 1912), by Z. R. Brockway (page images at HathiTrust)
• The parole of adults from state penal institutions in Pennsylvania and in other commonwealths ... (Philadelphia, 1927), by Clair Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• County jails (New York, 1920), by American Correctional Association and Hastings H. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prison community (Boston, U.S.A. : The Christopher Publishing House, [1940], 1940), by Donald Clemmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Society's misfits. (The Century co., 1916), by Madeleine Z. Doty (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prisons; a study in American social history prior to 1915 (The University of Chicago Press, 1936), by Blake McKelvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lockstep and corridor; thirty-five years of prison life (The University of Cincinnati press, 1927), by Charles L. Clark and Earle Edward Eubank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diary of a self-made convict (H. Regnery, 1954), by Alfred Hassler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The subterranean brotherhood (McBride, Nast, 1914), by Julian Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of suggested standards for a state correctional system. (The American Prison Assn, 1946), by American Prison Association. Committee on the Model State Plan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Remarks on prisons and prison discipline in the United States. (J. Kite & co., printers, 1845), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prison and the prisoner: a symposium (Little, Brown, and company, 1917), by Julia Kippen Jaffray and George Gordon Battle (page images at HathiTrust)
• An open letter to society from convict 1776 (Chicago etc. Fleming H. Revell company, 1911), by Maud Ballington Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methods of penal administration in the United States : notes of a personal enquiry, February and March, 1904 (London : Wertheimer, Lea & Co., 1904, 1904), by Edward Grubb and England) Howard Association (London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Correction and prevention (Charities Publication Committee, 1910), by Charles Richmond Henderson, Hastings H. Hart, and Eugene Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nordamerikas sittliche zustände. (F. A. Brockhaus, 1839), by N. H. Julius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prisons and common sense (J.B. Lippincott company, 1924), by Thomas Mott Osborne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Penology in the United States (John C. Winston, 1921), by Louis N. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the penitentiary system in the United States : and its application in France; with an appendix on penal colonies, and also, statistical notes (Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833), by Gustave de Beaumont, Francis Lieber, and Alexis de Tocqueville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walls and bars. (Socialist Party, 1927), by Eugene V. Debs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population. Special report on institutional population, 14 years old and over, characteristics of inmates in penal institutions, and in institutions for the delinquent, defective, and dependent (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1943), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• Character building for jail prisoners (Russell Sage Foundation, 1922), by American Prison Association. Committee on Treatment of Persons Awaiting Court Action and Misdemeanant Prisoners, Hastings H. Hart, and American Correctional Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penology an educational problem (Department of child helping, Russell Sage foundation, 1923), by Hastings H. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime and the community. (Columbia University Press, 1951), by Frank Tannenbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Training and promotion in the federal prison services (Bureau of Prisons, Dept., of Justice, 1941), by United States Bureau of Prisons and William Thomas Hammack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Partial report April 3, 1950. House resolution no. 243, 1949 regular session. ([Sacramento, 1950), by California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Crime and Corrections (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pebbles and pearls. sketches of the life-work of Mrs. Agnes L. d'Areambal in the interests of prisoners ... (Review and herald publishing co., 1891), by E Cora De Puy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison work as a career. A course of study based on the work and objectives of the Federal prison system. (Bureau of Prisons, Dept. of Justice, 1944), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of correctional standards. Prepared by the Committee to Revise the 1946 Manual of Suggested Standards for a State Correctional System. (New York, 1954), by American Correctional Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the prisons and reformatories of the United States and Canada, made to the Legislature of New York, January, 1867 (Van Benthuysen & sons, 1867), by E. C. Wines, Theodore W. Dwight, and Correctional Association of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison systems of the United States. Reports prepared for the International Prison Commission. S. J. Barrows, commissioner for the United States... (Govt. Print. Off., 1900), by International Penal and Prison Commission, Samuel J. Barrows, United States. Congress 1899-1900). House, and 1st session United States. 56th Congress (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Federal prisoners in jails. 1929-30 ... (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1931), by United States Bureau of Prisons and Bennet Loomis Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• HIV disease in correctional facilities : report (The Commission, 1991), by United States. National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Parole Commission oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, on Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Parole Commission, March 5, 1981. (U.S. G.P.O., 1981), by Civil Liberties United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The role of prisons in society : hearings before the Subcommittee on Penitentiaries and Corrections of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, October 5, and 6, 1977. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off. :, 1978), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Penitentiaries and Corrections (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bureau of Prisons Pre-trial Detention Program : hearings before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session ... May 4 and 5, 1978. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by Civil Liberties United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Managing prison health care and costs (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, 1995), by Douglas McDonald, Abt Associates, and National Institute of Justice (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on prisons and prison discipline in the United States (Munroe & Francis, 1845), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Population density in local jails, 1988 (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1990), by Christopher A. Innes and United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bureau of Prisons health care : inmates' access to health care is limited by lack of clinical staff : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives (The Office ;, 1994), by United States General Accounting Office and United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prisons and prisoners (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1982), by Mimi Cantwell and United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contracting for the operation of prisons and jails (U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 1987), by Judith C. Hackett and National Institute of Justice (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emerging issues on privatized prisons (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, 2001), by James Austin, Garry Coventry, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and United States Bureau of Justice Assistance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Developing jail mental health services : practice and principles (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health ;, 1986), by Henry J. Steadman, Joseph P. Morrissey, Dennis W. McCarty, and National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• United States prisoners in county jails; report of the Committee of the American prison association on lockups, municipal and county jails, together with Suggestions for grand jury surveys of conditions under which federal prisoners are kept in county jails (Russell Sage foundation, 1926), by municipal and county jails American Prison Association. Committee on lock-ups and Hastings H. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Live questions : including Our penal machinery and its victims (Donohue & Henneberry, 1890), by John Peter Altgeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime and criminals (Prison reform league publishing company, 1910), by Prison reform league (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the annual Congress of the American Prison Association. (W.B. Burford, 1908), by American Prison Association. Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the annual Congress of the National Prison Association of the United States. (Knight & Leonard, 1887), by National Prison Association of the United States. Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the National Prison Congress. (R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1886), by National Prison Congress and National Prison Association of the United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transactions of the ... National Prison Reform Congress. (National Prison Association of the United States, 1874), by National Prison Reform Congress and National Prison Association of the United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recommendations on standards for detention of juveniles and adults. (Federal security agency, Office of community war services, Social protection division, 1945), by United States. National advisory police committee on social protection and United States. Office of Community War Services. Division of Social Protection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Système pénitentiaire aux États-Unis et de son application en France; suivi d'un appendice sur les colonies pénales, et de notes statistiques (C. Gosselin, 1845), by Gustave de Beaumont and Alexis de Tocqueville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amerika's Besserungs-System und dessen Anwendung auf Europa : mit einem Anhange über Straf-Ansiedelungen und zwei und zwanzig Beilagen (Theod. Chr. Friedr. Enslin, 1833), by Gustave de Beaumont, Alexis de Tocqueville, N. H. Julius, and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Americana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our criminal criminal law (Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin co., 1914), by Samuel Crawford Denson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penology in the United States (John C. Winston, 1921), by Louis N. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison discipline in America (C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1847), by Francis Calley Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instituciones penitenciarias en los Estados Unidos (Biblioteca hispania, 1913), by Fernando Cadalso (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Criminology (Longmans,Green and co., 1938), by Albert Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Of prisons and justice; a selection of the writings of James V. Bennett. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964), by James V. Bennett and United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on National Penitentiaries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime and the community. (Columbia University Press, 1957), by Frank Tannenbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prisons in the tenth United States census : a paper (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1888), by Frederick Howard Wines and Mass.) National Prison Association of the United States. Congress (1888 : Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• An illustrated history and description of state prison life by one who has been there. In two parts: one showing the cruelties and horrors of the old system, the other, the reformatory advantages resulting from the new ... (O.A. Browning & Co., 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Accomplishment. (New York., between 1000 and 1999), by National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report (The Committee], in the 1920s), by National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• County jails ... An address, delivered before the County Government Association of New York State, Syracuse, Dec. 15, 1916. (National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor, 1916), by Hastings H. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prisons and jails. (U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice :, 1981), by William DeJong, Richard Ku, John Flanagan, Patricia Evans, Bradford Smith, Kenneth Carlson, Joan Mullen, Abt Associates, National Institute of Justice (U.S.). Office of Research Programs, and National Institute of Justice (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of Robert T. Devlin, President of the State Board of Prison Directors of California, on various reformatory and penal institutions of the United States. (J.D. Young, 1890), by California. State Board of Prison Directors and Robert T. Devlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The silent South, together with the freedman's case in equity and the convict lease system (C. Scribner's sons, 1895), by George Washington Cable (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amerikanische Skizzen; Vorträge gehalten im Grazer Juristenverein (Manz, 1913), by Gustav Hanausek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prison problems : propounded in prose and poetry (Platform, 1913), by Fred High (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on penitentiary discipline, addressed to William Roscoe of Liverpool, England. (Totten, 1827), by Stephen Allen and William Roscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American prison system (O. S. P. printery, 1920), by Jesse P. Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The attorney general's survey of release procedures ... (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1930), by United States Department of Justice, Homer S. Cummings, and Wayne L. Morse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bridging the gulf : being a description of the prison work of the Salvation Army ; coupled with the annual report for 1924-25. (s.n., 1925), by Salvation Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• Système pénitentiaire aux États-Unis et de son application en France; suivi d'un appendice sur les colonies pénales, et de notes statistiques (C. Gosselin, 1836), by Gustave de Beaumont and Alexis de Tocqueville (page images at HathiTrust)
• State control and supervision of charities and corrections ... ([Lincoln, Neb., 1905), by Anderson William Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal Bureau of Prisons : oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session ... March 29, 1984. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1986), by Civil Liberties United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correctional policy : oversight hearings before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, on correctional policy, February 23 and 24, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O., 1985), by Civil Liberties United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of William Crawford, esq., on the penitentiaries of the United States (s.n., 1839), by William Crawford and Great Britain Home Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on law reform, commercial policy, banks, penitentiaries, etc. in Great Britain and the United States of America. By J. L. Tellkampf. (Williams and Norgate, 1859), by J. L. Tellkampf (page images at HathiTrust)
• The City jail : a symposium (Calvert-Wilson Co. Press, 1903), by Fay Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on law reform, commercial policy, banks, penitentiaries, etc. in Great Britain and the United States of America. (Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1875), by J. L. Tellkampf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du système pénitentiaire américain en 1836 (Blin ;, 1837), by N. H. Julius and Victor Foucher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of Miss D.L. Dix, : In relation to the Illinois penitentiary. (s.n., 1847), by Dorothea Lynde Dix and 1st session: 1847-1848). Senate Illinois. General Assembly (15th (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison problems, propounded in prose and poetry (The Platform, 1912), by Fred High (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the annual Congress of the American Prison Association. (W.B. Burford, 1908), by American Prison Association. Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the annual Congress of the National Prison Association of the United States. (Knight & Leonard, 1887), by National Prison Association of the United States. Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transactions of the ... National Prison Congress. (National Prison Association of the United States, 1876), by National Prison Congress and National Prison Association of the United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the National Prison Congress. (R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1886), by National Prison Congress and National Prison Association of the United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transactions of the ... National Prison Reform Congress. (National Prison Association of the United States, 1874), by National Prison Reform Congress and National Prison Association of the United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russell Sage Foundation. (Charities Publication Committee, 1910), by Eugene Smith, Charles Richmond Henderson, and Russell Sage Foundation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du système pénitentiaire aux États-Unis, et de son application en France; suivi d'un appendice sur les colonies pénales et de notes statistiques. (H. Fournier jeune, 1833), by Gustave de Beaumont and Alexis de Tocqueville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the penitentiary system in the United States (Printed by M. Day, 1822), by Society for the Prevention of Pauperism in the City of New York, Seymour B. Durst, and Charles G. Haines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society (Patterson Smith, 1826), by Prison Discipline Society of Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the ... annual Congress of Correction of the American Correctional Association. (New York : The Association, 1955-1987., 1955), by American Correctional Association. Congress of Correction (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Correction and prevention : prepared for the Eighth International Prison Congress (Charities Publication Cimmittee, 1910), by Charles Richmond Henderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American prisons in turmoil: hearings, Ninety-second Congress. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1971), by United States House Select Committee on Crime (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Corrections: federal and state parole systems (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1971), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revision of Federal criminal laws : preliminary draft with reviser's notes. (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1944), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Revision of the Laws and William W. Barron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Penological questions : reports prepared for the International Prison Commission (Govt. Print. Off., 1899), by International Prison Commission and Samuel J. Barrows (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methods of penal administration in the United States. Notes of a personal enquiry, February and March, 1904 (Wertheimer, Lea & Co., 1987), by Edward Grubb and England) Howard Association (London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Crimes against criminals (The Roycrofters, 1906), by Robert Green Ingersoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amerikanische gefängnisse und erziehungsanstalten; ein reisebericht. (J. Bensheimer, 1927), by Moritz Liepmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• AIDS in correctional facilities : issues and options (U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice, Office of Communication and Research Utilization, 1988), by Theodore M. Hammett, Saira Moini, Abt Associates, and National Institute of Justice (U.S.). Office of Communication and Research Utilization (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal prison policy : oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One hundredth Congress, first session ... March 5, 1987. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1987), by Civil Liberties United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal prison population : present and future trends : hearings before the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, May 12 and July 29, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Parole Commission : oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, on Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Parole Commission, March 5, 1981. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1981), by Civil Liberties United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Prisons : hearing before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, April 6, 2000. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2001), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address by the Committee of Directors of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline in Scotland, to their subscribers, and to the public of Scotland generally. (Printe by Neill & co., 1835), by Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline in Scotland and William Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal prisons : trends in offender characteristics : fact sheet for the Chairman, Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, House of Representatives (The Office, 1989), by United States General Accounting Office and United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison expansion : program to identify DOD property for prison use could be improved : report to the Chairman, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate (The Office, 1990), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private prisons : cost savings and BOP's statutory authority need to be resolved : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities and Energy, Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives (The Office, 1991), by United States General Accounting Office and Business Opportunities United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Regulation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Housing Federal prisoners in non-Federal facilities is becoming more difficult : report to the Congress (General Accounting Office, 1978), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Committee on treatment of persons awaiting court action and misdemeanant prisoners, presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association, Jacksonville, Florida, 1921 (Russell Sage Foundation, 1922), by American Prison Association. Committee on Treatment of Persons Awaiting Court Action and Misdemeanant Prisoners and Hastings H. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pennsylvanian system of prison discipline triumphant in France. (Printed by I. Ashmead, 1847), by George Sumner and Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examen de las penitenciarias de los Estados Unidos : informe que presenta al supremo gobierno del Perú (Impr. de S.W. Benedict, 1853), by Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán (page images at HathiTrust)
• Humanity and humanitarianism : with special reference to the prison systems of Great Britain and the United States, the question of criminal lunacy, and capital punishment (F.B. Kitto, 1871), by William Tallack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison reminiscences. (J.P.Magee, 1856), by Eleazer Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eugène Onéghine; roman en vers (1825-1832) (Auguste Ghio, Éditeur, 1884), by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin and Vladimir Mikhaĭlov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tuberculosis in penal institutions : report prepared for the eighth [i.e. seventh] International Prison Congress, 1905 (Govt. Print. Off., 1904), by Julius Barber Ransom, International Penal and Prison Commission, and : 1905 : Budapest) International Penal and Prison Congress (7th (page images at HathiTrust)
• American bastiles (The Carnahan Press, 1910), by Clarissa Olds Keeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Live questions: including Our penal machinery and its victims (Donohue & Henneberry, 1890), by John Peter Altgeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime file study guide. (U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 1988), by National Institute of Justice (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penology in the United States (John C. Winston, 1922), by Louis N. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the commissioners appointed under the Lower Canada Act 4th William IV, cap. 10, to visit the United States' penitentiaries (s.n.], 1835), by J. Neilson and Dominique Mondelet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the prisons and reformatories of the United States and Canada, made to the Legislature of New York, January, 1867 (s.n.], 1867), by E. C. Wines and Theodore W. Dwight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Canada Blackie (T. Allen, 1916), by Anne P. L. Field (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of proceedings (C.G. Burgoyne's Quick Print, 1883), by National Prison Association of the United States and National Prison Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison reform in the United States : proceedings of a conference held at Newport, Rhode Island, August 1st and 2d, 1877. (National Print. Co., 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wall shadows : a study in American prisons (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1922), by Frank Tannenbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manufacturing in penitentiaries. Report ... (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1917), by United States. Commission on equipping United States penitentiaries for manufacturing articles used by the government (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death by law; from the Outlook on July 26, 1922. (The Federal printing co., 1922), by Harry Lyman Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The city jail : a symposium (Colvert-Wilson, 1903), by Fay Lewis and Colvert-Wilson Company Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Informal and condensed report of the American Prison Congress, Lincoln, Neb., October 21-26, 1905 ... ([n.p., 1905), by American Correctional Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The passing of the county jail; individualization of misdemeanants through a unified correctional system (Collegiate press, 1920), by Stuart Alfred Queen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prisons in the reconstruction period ... (National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor, 1919), by National Committee on Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new departure in the treatment of inmates of penal institutions ([House of Correction Press], 1915), by Samuel Calmin Kohs and Chicago (Ill.). House of Correction (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth ... (U.S. Penitentiary press, 1913), by McNeil Island Penitentiary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the United States Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. (U.S. Penitentiary press, 1900), by Kansas United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report (U.S. Penitentiary press, 1920), by Ga.) United States. Penitentiary (Atlanta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the warden of the United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington. (U.S. Penitentiary press, 1913), by McNeil Island Penitentiary (page images at HathiTrust)
• State industrial schools. (Govt. Print. Off., 1916), by United States Office of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal and state laws relating to convict labor. (G.P.O., 1914), by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penal and reformatory institutions. ([n.p., 1910), by Charles Richmond Henderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die amerikanischen besserungs ... : systeme erörtert in einem sendschreiben herrn W. Crawford ... (F.A. Brockhaus, 1837), by N. H. Julius and William Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corrections. : Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, first session. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1971), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prisons in wartime : report of the progress of state prison industries under the Government Division of the War Production Board (s.n.], 1943), by Maury Maverick and United States. War Production Board. Government Division (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Live questions; including our penal machinery and its victims. (Donohue & Henneberry, 1890), by John Peter Altgeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Probation, prisons, parole. (University of California, 1941), by Milton Chernin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handbook of American prisons (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926), by National Society of Penal Information (U.S) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal prison bill : hearings before the Committee on Rules, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, first session, [on] H. Res. 17. March 15, 1928. (U.S. G.P.O., 1928), by United States House Committee on Rules (page images at HathiTrust)
• Profile of state prison inmates, 1986 (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1988), by Christopher A. Innes and United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progress report, May 15, 1937. Supplement, Oct. 15, 1937. ([Washington, 1937), by U. S. Prison industries reorganization administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• U.S. Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pa. (Bureau of Prisons, 1950), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inside prisons (U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 1988), by James B. Jacobs and National Institute of Justice (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of correctional standards (New York, 1957), by American Correctional Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handbook of American prisons and reformatories, 1929 (National Society of Penal Information, Inc., 1929), by Austin Harbutt MacCormick, Paul W. Garrett, and National Society of Penal Information (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California. (Bureau of Prisons, 1950), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Population density in local jails, 1988 (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1990), by Christopher A. Innes and United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison discipline in America (J. Murray, 1848), by Francis Calley Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• A look at the Federal prison system. (U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1973), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• New horizons in criminology : the American crime problem (Prentice-Hall, 1949), by Harry Elmer Barnes and Negley K. Teeters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prison reform : how can the federal government reform prisons and jails in the United States? : national debate topic for high schools, 1989-1990, pursuant to Public Law 88-246 (U.S. G.P.O., 1989), by United States. Congress 1989). Senate and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• The city of dead souls, and how it was made alive again. A hundred years within the walls (Kentucky Printshop, 1920), by Lucien V. Rule and American Prison Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sex in prison : revealing sex conditions in American prisons (Padell Book Co., 1951), by Joseph F. Fishman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• United States Prison Service study course (Bureau of Prisons, 1934), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventeenth year-book, containing the annual report of the board of managers for the year ending September 30, 1892. (Reformatory press, 1892), by Elmira New York (State). State Reformatory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chart and comment on laws affecting the labor of prisoners and the sale and distribution of prison-made products in the United States. ([Washington, D.C., 1937), by United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Federal Government's role in corrections (President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, 1967), by Richard A. McGee, Ernest G. Reimer, and United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Convict labor: 1923. (Govt. print. off., 1924), by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Health care in correctional institutions (Office of development, testing, and dissemination, National institute of law enforcement and criminal justice, Law enforcement assistance administration, U.S. Dept. of justice, 1979), by Norma Gluckstern Packard, University research corporation, Executive training program in advanced criminal justice practices, and testing United States. National institute of law enforcement and criminal justice. Office of development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal Correctional Institution, La Tuna, Texas. (Bureau of Prisons, 1950), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee, Florida. (Bureau of Prisons, 1950), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Federal Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio. (Bureau of Prisons, 1950), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• They all come out! : an address (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938), by Homer S. Cummings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield, Missouri. (Bureau of Prisons, 1950), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal Correctional Institution, Milan, Michigan. (Bureau of Prisons, 1950), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Something new in prisons (Bureau of Prisons, 1950), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison employee unionism ... : [reports of the MERIC project]. (National institute of law enforcement and criminal justice, Law enforcement assistance administration, U.S. Dept. of justice :, 1978), by American Justice Institute. Management-employee relations in corrections project, John M. Wynne, M. Robert Montilla, and National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal Reformatory, El Reno, Oklahoma. (Bureau of Prisons, 1950), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal Correctional Institution, Englewood, Colorado. (Bureau of Prisons, 1950), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia. (Bureau of Prisons, 1950), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington. (Bureau of Prisons, 1950), by United States Bureau of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trends in criminology and politics; a correlation ([Cambridge, Mass.], 1934), by Jonathan Barlow Richards (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Strafvollzug und Jugendschutz in Amerika; Eindrücke und Ausblicke einer Gefängnisstudienreise (Decker, 1911), by Georg Stammer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prison routine (War resisters league, 1943), by Charles R. Swift (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• White wine and angel cake; an inside look at American prisons and penology today. (Exposition Press, 1962), by William H. Hine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prison reform (Newark, Ohio: : [publisher not identified], 1894, 1894), by Milton R. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prisons and reformatory institutions ; a report (New York : National Committee for Mental Hygiene, 1928., 1928), by M. Liepmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Live questions : including Our penal machinery and its victims (The Humboldt Publishing Co., 1893), by John Peter Altgeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• The silent south, together with The freedman's case in equity and The convict lease system (C. Scribner's sons, 1899), by George Washington Cable (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories, ed. by Hastings H. Hart (Gutenberg ebook)
• Woman in Prison, by Caroline H. Woods (Gutenberg ebook)

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