Confronting confinement
Subtitle: a report of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons
By: John J. Gibbons, Nicholas de B. Katzenbach, Commission co-chairs.
Contributors: Gibbons, John J., 1924-; Katzenbach, Nicholas deB. 1922-; Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons.; Vera Institute of Justice.
Publisher: Vera Institute of Justice
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Prison administration -- United States -- Evaluation; Prison discipline -- United States; Prison violence -- United States; Prisoners -- Health and hygiene -- United States; Prisoners -- Mental health services -- United States; Prisons -- United States
Notes: "June 2006."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-117).

Also available via the World Wide Web.

Supported in part by grants from the Charles River Fund, Ford Foundation, Fund for New Jersey, JEHT Foundation, Open Society Institute, Overbrook Foundation, and the Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust.
Table of contents: title: Conditions of confinement --; title: Labor and leadership --; title: Oversight and accountability --; title: Knowledge and data.