Prisons in America: A Reference Handbook

✍ Scribed by Nicole Hahn Rafter, Debra L. Stanley

Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Edition: annotated edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Prisons in America covers such important subjects as punishment in the United States since colonial times; the most critical penal problems today; units for special populations; key penologists, and more. This work is a source for basic statistics on prisoners, penal trends, programs, services, and more. Listings of professional organizations and print and nonprint resources are also included.

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