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• - An overview of the various forms of community corrections.
  
• - A novel which proposes a radical alternative prison in the Aleutian Islands.
  
• - Atlantic Unbound: An article from The Atlantic Monthly Magazine. An article about the State of Vermont's novel plan to trust inmates like other human beings.
  
• - An analysis of the public and private prison systems. In-depth piece on the economics of the prison system, with photos.
  
• - An E-ZINE written by prisoners for the free world. Open the cell door and meet the men and women behind bars. Topics include but are not limited to prison issues.
  
• - Dr. David A. Camp examines racial imbalances in incarcertaion rates in Oklahoma.
  
• - Examines the effect that an aging prison population has on the quantity and diversity of services prisons provide.
  
• - New York Times article about trends in US incarceration rates, highlighting differences between states and the high rate of imprisonment for black males ages 20 to 34. [Requires free registration.]
  
• - Examines the ways in which prison may have inadvertently affected crime rates. By Todd R. Clear, Professor and Associate Dean, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University.
  
• - An outline of the services the trust offers to prisoners and their families.
  
• - Companion web site to the documentary which explores the lives of children in three families whose mothers are locked up for nonviolent crimes.
  
• - Examines the unintended consequences of the incarceration of parents on children. By Dr. John Hagan, Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.
  
• - Detailed artilcle on Watchtower (a religious publication's site) addressing the question, "Can prisons rehabilitate criminals?"
  
• - A book written by Donald Johnson who is serving a life sentence at Pelican Bay in SHU. Donny was also featured in A&E's Investigative Reports, "solitary confinement".
  
• - Explores how high rates of incarceration might weaken already fragile inner-city neighborhoods. By Joan Moore, Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
  
• - Harper's Magazine article by Wil S. Hylton---The Plague of The Prison Correctional HMO
  
• - By Neve Gordon, from the National Catholic Reporter.