imprisonment

"Is the chance to serve as an extra for Hitler's favorite filmmaker a chance at life--or a detour on the path to inevitable extermination? In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines the lives of the Gypsies who worked as extras for the real Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, giving readers a story of survival unlike any other"--Publisher.

Authors present opinions on whether or not "super-max" prisons are humane, whether or not shock devices are an acceptable means of discipline, and whether or not prison health care systems are adequate.

Examines the explosion in the prison population in the United States over the past twenty years, and discusses the costs and consequences of this growth.

Examines the explosion in the prison population in the United States over the past twenty years, and discusses the costs and consequences of this growth.

Reviews five trials in which people were wrongly convicted of serious crimes, including manslaughter, murder, and conspiracy.

Recounts the experiences of Michael O'McCarthy and Robert Straley, two teenage boys, who, in the 1950s and 1960s, suffered abuses at their reform school in Florida and more than fifty years later attempted to confront those responsible.

Anna Pigeon is a 35-year old park employee with a broken heart that is the result of her past. On her day off she vanishes, never to return to her job. Her co-workers assume she's moved on because her cabin is cleaned out. But has she?.

Contains a selection of primary sources that examine all sides of the debate over prisons, discussing whether they are effective, how inmates should be treated, the issue of privatization, and inmate labor.