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• Caught in the Net: The Impact of Drug Policies on Women and Families (New York: ACLU; Brennan Center for Justice; Break the Chains, ca. 2005), by Lenora M. Lapidus, Namita Luthra, Anjuli Verma, Deborah Small, Patricia E. Allard, and Kirsten D. Levingston, contrib. by Andrea J. Ritchie (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Woman in Prison (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1869), by Caroline H. Woods (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• "Not Part of My Sentence": Violations of the Human Rights of Women in Custody (1999), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Prisoners of St.-Lazare (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1872), ed. by Pauline de Grandpré, trans. by Mrs. E. M. McCarthy
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA

• Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, c2008), by Viviane Saleh-Hanna (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• 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)

• The Heart of Mid-Lothian, by Walter Scott
  • HTML in the UK
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• The Legacy of Cain, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text

• The Prisoners of St.-Lazare (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1872), ed. by Pauline de Grandpré, trans. by Mrs. E. M. McCarthy
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA

• "No One is Safe": The Abuse of Women in Iraq's Criminal Justice System (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2014), by Erin Evers (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, c2008), by Viviane Saleh-Hanna (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Understanding Offending: Prisoners and Rehabilitation in Malawi (2005), by Patrick Burton, Eric Pelser, and Lameck Gondwe (PDF with commentary at issafrica.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• The Life and Letters of Lady Arabella Stuart, Including Numerous Original and Unpublished Documents (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866), by Elizabeth Cooper, contrib.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)

• The Life and Letters of Lady Arabella Stuart, Including Numerous Original and Unpublished Documents (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866), by Elizabeth Cooper, contrib.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

• Can't Hear Me Scream (2008), by Valerie Morse (PDF with rotated pages and commentary at Rebel Press)

• 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)

• Dangerous Convictions: An Introduction to Extremist Activities in Prisons (c2002), by Anti-defamation League (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by James McGrath Morris (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• The Road (New York: Macmillan, 1907), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

• Execution's Doorstep: True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2008), by Leslie Lytle (multiple formats at Northeastern and archive.org)

• My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington, by Rose O'Neal Greenhow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of Prison Life at Baltimore and Johnson's Island, Ohio, by Henry E. Shepherd (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Old Capitol and Its Inmates, by Virginia Lomax (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Recollections and Reflections: An Auto of Half a Century and More, by Wharton J. Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn., With Reminiscences of Camp Douglas, by John M. Copley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Stolen Years (Cleveland: Pennington Press, c1959), by Roger Touhy, contrib. by Ray Brennan (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Rebuilding Families, Reclaiming Lives: State Obligations to Children in Foster Care and Their Incarcerated Parents (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2006), by Patricia E. Allard and Lynn D. Lu (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)

• 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)

• 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
• An Open Letter to President Harding, by Industrial Workers of the World (PDF page images at MSU)

• 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)
• Permitting Bataan Death March Prisoners to Sue in U.S. Court of Claims: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 3188 (Washington: GPO, 1984), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, by Virginia Clay-Clopton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• My Life in Prison (New York and London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1912), by Donald Lowrie (multiple formats at archive.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

• 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)

• Rebuilding Families, Reclaiming Lives: State Obligations to Children in Foster Care and Their Incarcerated Parents (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2006), by Patricia E. Allard and Lynn D. Lu (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• 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)

• 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)
• No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons (2001), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML with commentary at hrw.org)
• The September 11 Detainees: A Review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the September 11 Attacks, by United States Department of Justice (PDF at justice.gov)

• 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)

• 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)
• 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)

• No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons (2001), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML with commentary at hrw.org)

• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, by Alexander Berkman
  • HTML at Pitzer
  • multiple formats at archive.org

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