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• Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, by Alice Morse Earle, illust. by Frank Hazenplug
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, by Alice Morse Earle, illust. by Frank Hazenplug
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Criminal Justice Debt: A Toolkit for Action (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2012), by Roopal Patel and Meghna Philip (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Repaying Debts (New York: Council of State Governments Justice Center, c2007), by Rachel L. McLean and Michael D. Thompson (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• The Indeterminate Sentence and Parole Law: A Study of Eighteen Years' Operation in Indiana (Indianapolis, IN: Board of State Charities, 1916), by Amos W. Butler (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Profiting From Probation: America's "Offender-Funded" Probation Industry (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2014), by Chris Albin-Lackey (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Federal Probation (partial serial archives)
• Federal Prisons, by United States Bureau of Prisons (full serial archives)

• The Real Jail Problem (Chicago: Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago, 1915), by Edith Abbott
  • multiple formats at Google
  • without cover; page images at HathiTrust

• Profiting From Probation: America's "Offender-Funded" Probation Industry (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2014), by Chris Albin-Lackey (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Deterrence and the Death Penalty (Washington: National Academies Press, c2012), by National Research Council Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty, ed. by Daniel Nagin and John Pepper (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• The Bitter Fruit of American Justice: International and Domestic Resistance to the Death Penalty (Boston: Northeastern University Press, c2007), by Alan W. Clarke and Laurelyn Whitt (multiple formats at Northeastern)
• Mandatory Justice: The Death Penalty Revisited (c2005), by Constitution Project (Georgetown Public Policy Institute) (PDF at constitutionproject.org)
• Kiss of Death: America's Love Affair with the Death Penalty (Boston: Northeastern University Press, c2003), by John D. Bessler (multiple formats at Northeastern)
• 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)
• From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mandatory Justice: Eighteen Reforms to the Death Penalty (c2001), by Constitution Project (Georgetown Public Policy Institute) (PDF at constitutionproject.org)
• Fatal Flaws: Innocence and the Death Penalty in the USA (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• United States of America: "A Macabre Assembly Line of Death": Death Penalty Developments in 1997 (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• United States of America: Death Penalty Developments in 1996 (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Betraying the Young: Human Rights Violations Against Children in the US Justice System (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Capital Punishment in the United States (reprint of U-Pennsylvania dissertation; Philadelphia: Committee on Philanthropic Labor of Philadelphia, Yearly meeting of Friends, 1919), by Raymond T. Bye (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ninth Circuit Capital Punishment Handbook (electronic edition, 1999), by United States Court of Appeals (9th Circuit) (HTML and PDF at uscourts,gov)

• America Without the Death Penalty: States Leading the Way (with an added preface; Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2005), by John F. Galliher, Larry Wayne Koch, David P. Keys, and Teresa J. Guess (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• 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)

• From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hanging the Sheriff: A Biography of Henry Plummer, by R. E. Mather and F. E. Boswell (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• By the Neck Until Dead: A History of Hangings in Cuyahoga County, by John Stark Bellamy (illustrated HTML with commentary at csuohio.org)

• Mandatory Justice: The Death Penalty Revisited (c2005), by Constitution Project (Georgetown Public Policy Institute) (PDF at constitutionproject.org)

• 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)

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

• The War on Marijuana in Black and White (with correction made Sep 2013; New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 2013), by Ezekiel Edwards, Will Bunting, and Lynda Garcia (PDF with commentary at aclu.org)

• Criminal Justice Debt: A Toolkit for Action (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2012), by Roopal Patel and Meghna Philip (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.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 Real Jail Problem (Chicago: Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago, 1915), by Edith Abbott
  • multiple formats at Google
  • without cover; page images at HathiTrust

• 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)

• Sentencing in Time (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2017), by Linda Meyer (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform (2 volumes; 1983), ed. by Alfred Blumstein
  • Volume I: page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume II: page images with commentary at NAP

• 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)
• Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees (c2011), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• Inquiry Into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody (redacted unclassified version; 2008), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services
  • PDF at senate.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Leave No Marks: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and the Risk of Criminality (Washington, DC: Physicians for Human Rights, 2007), by Scott Allen, Devon Chaffee, and Farnoosh Hashemian (PDF with commentary at physiciansforhumanrights.org)
• Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact (2008), by Physicians for Human Rights (PDF with commentary at phr.org)
• Tortured Justice: Using Coerced Evidence to Prosecute Terrorist Suspects (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Deborah Colson and Avi Cover (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The Complete Works of Edward Livingston on Criminal Jurisprudence: Consisting of Systems of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana and for the United States of America, With the Introductory Reports to the Same (2 volumes; New York: National Prison Association of the United States of America, 1873), by Edward Livingston, contrib. by Salmon P. Chase (page images at HathiTrust)

• Punishment and Political Order (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Keally D. McBride (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

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