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Alternatives to Incarceration
http://members.aol.com/nu3psi96q/Jamaal/index1.html
An overview of the various forms of community corrections.

Atlantic Monthly on the Prison-Industrial Complex
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98dec/prisons.htm
An analysis of the public and private prison systems. In-depth piece on the economics of the prison system, with photos.

Cell Door Magazine
http://lairdcarlson.com/celldoor
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.

Prisoners of the Williwaw
http://www.edgriffin.net/books.htm
A novel which proposes a radical alternative prison in the Aleutian Islands.

Donny, Life of a Lifer
http://members.tripod.com/donnyj_pelican/index.htm
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".

Rape used as control in U.S. prisons
http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/091401/091401l.htm
By Neve Gordon, from the National Catholic Reporter.

Prisons in Crisis
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2001/5/8a/article_01.htm
Detailed artilcle on Watchtower (a religious publication's site) addressing the question, "Can prisons rehabilitate criminals?"

The Bourne Trust
http://www.imprisonment.org.uk
An outline of the services the trust offers to prisoners and their families.

The Aging of Prison Populations
http://www.doc.state.ok.us/DOCS/OCJRC/Ocjrc95/950725a.htm
Examines the effect that an aging prison population has on the quantity and diversity of services prisons provide.

Backfire: When Incarceration Increases Crime
http://www.doc.state.ok.us/DOCS/OCJRC/Ocjrc96/Ocjrc7.htm
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.

Bearing the Burden: How Incarceration Weakens Inner-City Communities
http://www.doc.state.ok.us/DOCS/OCJRC/Ocjrc96/Ocjrc43.htm
Explores how high rates of incarceration might weaken already fragile inner-city neighborhoods. By Joan Moore, Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Incarceration Rates by Race
http://www.doc.state.ok.us/DOCS/OCJRC/OCJRC94/940650k.htm
Dr. David A. Camp examines racial imbalances in incarcertaion rates in Oklahoma.

The Next Generation: Children of Prisoners
http://www.doc.state.ok.us/DOCS/OCJRC/Ocjrc96/Ocjrc19.htm
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.

Sick On The Inside
http://www.wrongfuldeathinstitute.com/links/sickontheinside.htm
Harper's Magazine article by Wil S. Hylton---The Plague of The Prison Correctional HMO

When The Bough Breaks
http://www.itvs.org/whentheboughbreaks
Companion web site to the documentary which explores the lives of children in three families whose mothers are locked up for nonviolent crimes.

Humanizing the Prisons
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/95nov/prisons/humanizi.htm
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.

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