Books

Derek S. Jeffreys (2013). Spirituality in Dark Places: The Ethics of Solitary Confinement. Palgrave Macmillan.

Colin Dayan (2011). The Law Is a White Dog. Princeton University Press.

David Chura (2010). I Don’t Wish Nobody To Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup. Beacon Press.

Marjorie Cohn, Ed. (2010). The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse. NYU Press.

Wilbert Rideau (2010). In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance. Knopf.

Center for Constitutional Rights and National Lawyers Guild (2010). Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook (5th edition). Center for Constitutional Rights and National Lawyers Guild.

Anne-Marie Cusac (2009). Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America. Yale University Press.

Robert Hillary King (2009). From the Bottom of the Heap. PM Press.

Mark A. R. Kleiman (2009). When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment. Princeton University Press.

Victoria Law (2009). Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women. PM Press.

Michael B. Mushlin (2009). Rights of Prisoners, 4th Ed. West.

Nigel S. Rodley (2009). The Treatment of Prisoners Under International Law. Oxford University Press.

Sharon Shalev (2009). Supermax: Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement. Willan Publishing (UK).

Caleb Smith (2009). The Prison and the American Imagination. Yale University Press.

Darius Rejali (2008). Torture and Democracy. Princeton University Press.

Colin Dayan (2007). The Story of Cruel & Unusual. MIT Press/Boston Review Books

Mary Beth Pfieffer (2007). Crazy In America: The Hidden Tragedy Of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill. Carrol & Graf.

Jackie Sumell and Herman Wallace (2007). The House That Herman Built. Merz & Solitude (Germany).

Lorna A. Rhodes (2004). Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison. University of California Press.

Brian Jarvis (2004). Cruel and Unusual: A Cultural History of Punishment in America. Pluto Press (UK).

John A. Fliter (2001). Prisoners’ Rights: The Supreme Court and Evolving Standards of Decency. Greenwood.

Terry Kupers (1999). Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It. Jossey-Bass.

Christopher E. Smith (1997). The Rehnquist Court and Criminal Punishment. Routledge.

Pete Earley (1992). The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison. Bantam.

John J. DiIulio, Jr. (1990). Courts, Corrections, and the Constitution: The Impact of Judicial Intervention on Prisons and Jails. Oxford University Press.

Michel Foucault (1975; tr. 1977). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Vintage.

Chapters

Terry Kupers (2013).  Isolated Confinement: Effective Method for Behavior Change or Punishment for Punishment’s Sake? In Bruce Arrigo and Heather Bersot (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies (213-32). Routledge.

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