imprisonment

An overview of the criminal justice system in the United States that reviews the history of prisons and the penal system from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the early twenty-first, and discusses methods of punishment; local, state, and federal prisons; alternative sentencing, and related topics.

Describes how the Philadelphia police's use of arrest warrants, high-tech surveillance, and questioning of family, friends, and employers in the pursuit of suspects has demoralized poor neighborhods in the city and has a negative impact on all of the residents in these areas.

Pt. 1. The Mechanism. 1. Solzhenitsyn and the Creation of the Gulag. 2. The Nazi Camp System. 3. Henri Alleg and Colonialism in Algeria. 4. The British in Ireland. 5. The Apartheid System in South Africa -- Pt. 2. The Imagination. 6. Photography: The Experience of Shock. 7. Closet Land: State and Sexual Authority. 8. The Extreme Experience of Solitude: Aurobindo, Ngugi, Nien Cheng -- Pt. 3. Recent Politics of Cruelty in Action. 9. The Little School: Argentina and Brazil. 10. The Death of a Guatemalan Village. El Salvador. 11. State Torture and Religion. The Torture of Children. 12. Conclusion.

Examines the reasons why the prison system in the United States is expanding while crime rates are falling, and presents evidence to support the author's contention that a political and economic chain reaction is largely responsible for the majority of the growth in the prison and jail population since the 1970's.

Examines twenty prisons from around the world and includes descriptions of living conditions, information on famous prisoners, and facts about when the prisons were in operation and what types of prisoners were held at each facility.

The author describes physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, torture, and commercial exploitation of children and youths ages five to sixteen--including not only young people who have committed crimes but runaways and children with mental disabilities--in correctional facilities he visited in thirty states between 1972 and 1975.

When a mother and daughter are separated by the mother's incarceration, they find a special way to keep their loving relationship alive.

Autobiographical reminiscences of the Indian spy.