Books

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

Gates of Injustice

New Jack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover

 

Articles

"Prisons in the US" (Wikipedia)

"Sentences for Crack Offenses Studied" (CNBC)

"Prison-Industrial Complex (Wikipedia)

The Effects of Prison on Prison Guards

"American Seduction: Portrait of a Prison Town" (Joelle Fraser)

"Prison Purging Books on Faith from Libraries" (NY Times)

"Explore Your Prison Cell" (Patti Digh -- "37 Days" Blog)

"No-Touch Torture" (Dr. Helen Smith blog)

"Abu Ghraib in Virginia: Abuse of Iraqi inmates follows a pattern established in Southern prisons"

"Incarceration Nation: The Rise of a Prison-Industrial Complex"

The Stanford Prison Experiment

Prison Industrial Complex

Wallens Ridge Prison Complaints

 

Radio

Locked Down: Gangs in the Supermax (American RadioWorks)

Turning the Key: California's Prison Guards (American RadioWorks)

Holler to the Hood 

 

Video

http://realcostofprisons.org/videos.html (Real Cost i Project)

Holler to the Hood 

60 Minutes: A Clean Version of Hell

 

Organizations

Critical Resistance

Prison Officer.org

Real Cost of Prisons.org

The Sentencing Project

Holler to the Hood

National Sheriff's Association

InsidePrison.com

Prison Activist Resource Center

SuperMaxed.com

Federal Bureau of Prisons

ThreeStrikes.org

Prison Book Program

 

 

Super Max Prisons

The Prison Inside Prison

 

Wallens Ridge Prison

Google Earth Image

Virginia's Wallens Ridge Prison Complaints . . . .The Hartford Courant

 

 

Prison Demographics

Hudson Link for Prison in Higher Education

System Failure: Violence, Abuse and Neglect in the California Youth Authority (video)

 

Incarceration and Race

Rich and Poor Capital Case Defendents

Educated Prisoners Are Less Likely to Return to Prison

 

Prison Industry

American Correctional Association

"Prison Demographics Bode Well for Geo's Group Stocks"

"Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal"

PX: Direct Restraints

MGT of America

 

Prison and Drug Use

U. S. Dept. of Health and Human Services -- Applied Studies Dept.

Office of National Drug Control Policy

 

Correctional Officer Information

Job Description and Requirements

Corrections Forum Magazine

NY Times: "Desperate for Prison Guards, Some States Even Rob Cradle"

NC Department of Prisons

Comparison of Salary for Coal Miner vs Correction Officer

 

Prison Practices

Body Cavity Searches

Five Points Restraint

Telephone Calls

Tasers

Alternative to Violence Program

Inmate Handbook

 

Prison and Medicine

Tortured in Prison, Mark Gangretto Probably Won't Live to See Reforms

 

Prison in Media

"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Media in Prison Films"

 

Sentencing Practices

"The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Prison"

 

Prison Art

Prison Poems

 

People in Up the Ridge documentary

 

David Tracy

David Mark Tracy: Murdered by Virginia

 

Larry Frazier

Signs of the Times: Wallens Ridge Prison

 

John J. Armstrong

THE REACH OF WAR: THE CONGRESS; Screening of Prison Officials Is Faulted by Lawmakers

 

Ron Angelone

Who's Setting the Standards: Profile of Ron Angelone

DOC Director Ron Angelone Received National Award from Association of State Correctional Administrators

Executive Profile -- Compudyne

 

 

Sister Beth Davies

"Two Catholic Sisters:  Working in the Web of Life"

 

 

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