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The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison. Gresham Syke

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States has increased fivefold during the last four decades.

An essential resource for former convicts and their families post-incarceration. The United States has the largest criminal justice system in the world, with cu

An authoritative and thought-provoking argument for offering free college in prisons—from the former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Anthony