Prisons and prison systems
Subtitle: a global encyclopedia
By: Mitchel P. Roth.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Prisons -- Encyclopedias.; Imprisonment -- Cross-cultural studies -- Encyclopedias.; Prisons -- History -- Encyclopedias.; Prisoners -- Biography -- Encyclopedias.; Prisons -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- Encyclopedias.
Genres: Encyclopedias.; Cross-cultural studies; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alphabetical list of entries; title: Topical list of entries; title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Chronology; title: The encyclopedia; title: Appendix A: Prison museums; title: Appendix B: Some famous prisoners and their prison history; title: Appendix C: Writings by prisoners; title: Appendix D: Writings by prison employees; title: Appendix E: Prison architects and visionaries; title: Appendix F: Federal correctional institutions (USA); title: Appendix G: Standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners; title: Appendix H: Selections from Alcatraz Prison regulations; title: Appendix I: National Prison Congress Declaration of principles; title: Appendix J: The Mutual Welfare League; title: Appendix K: Plan for a penitentiary inspection house, by Jeremy Bentham; title: Appendix L: Prison argot/glossary/slang; title: Appendix M: French prison slang from Devil's Island; title: Appendix N: Soviet slang from the gulags.