Prisons
Prisons and Departments of Corrections
(USA) (Canada)
Prison Conditions
Prison Gangs
Prison History
Prison Labour and Prison Industries
Prison Life and Prison Stories
Prison Photographs, Tattoos, and Artwork
Prison Racism
Prisoner Rape
Prisons and Society: Philosophy, Theory, and
Ideology
Prison Suicide
Supermax Prisons
Crime
Prison and Departments of Corrections
USA
Canada
Prison Conditions
- Alaska
Prison Data: Some Comparisons
- Annual
Report 1999 - Amnesty International Annual Report 1999 on
Brazil conditions
- Basic
Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners
- Center
for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), and San Quentin State Prison
- Current
Crisis in Peru
-
HIV Risk Perception
- Human
Rights Watch: Prisons - detailed report on the daily living
conditions of the world's prisons
- Mother
Jones: Debt to Society - articles, discussions, resources,
and an Incarceration Atlas
- Prisoners
With AIDS: The Body
- Prisoners
With AIDS: The Osborne Association - NY organization serving
7,500 people annually in community sites and courts in the Bronx,
Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, as well as in city jails and
state prisons
- Association
for the Prevention of Torture
- Human
Rights Center for the Assistance of Prisoners (HRCAP) -
An Egyptian organisation for the defence of prisoners' rights.
- Interights
- International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights,
including information on Police and Inmate Torture
- Beyond
Prisons International Symposium - Held in Kingston, Ontario
in March of 1998 was the ideal forum for exchanging ideas, learning
from others' experiences, and building partnerships. It provided
a unique opportunity for critical debate and constructive discussion
among people who face similar challenges.
- Irish
Penal Reform Trust
- Prison
Activist - information on progressive and radical information
on prisons and the criminal prosecution system.
- Infectious Diseases in
Corrections Report - Sponsored by the Brown Medical School,
a forum for correctional problem solving, targeting correctional
administrators and HIV/AIDS service providers including physicians,
nurses, outreach workers, and case managers
- Dark
and Evil World - "the dark and evil world of the Arkansas
GOOD OL' BOYS"
- Review
of "Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison"
- Union
- Reforming the California Criminal Justice System
- Us
Prison Torture - article on solitary confinement "torture"
- Amnesty
USA - Abuse of Women in Custody
- Equal
Justice USA - looking at the "economic and political
biases" of the legal system
- FLorida
Prisoners' Legal Aid Organization - a "check and balance
on the prison system and its bureaucracy"
- The
Jeff Dicks Coalition - A nonprofit seeking adequate medical
care for inmates
- Gang
and Security Threat Group Awareness - Florida Department
of Corrections online awareness project on prison gangs
- California
Gang Investigator's Association - Provides a forum for all
law enforcement officers (including corrections, prosecutors,
parole and probation) to exchange ideas
- Florida
Gang Investigators Association - law enforcement and criminal
justice professionals committed to preventing gang membership
and gang-related activity within the state of Florida.
- Massachusetts Department of Corrections Security Threat Group
Info - online program
- National
Gang Crime Research Center - Site by gang expert George
Knox, providing fang profiles for Disciples, Latin Kings, and
female gangs
- Texas
Unofficial Prison Gang Slang Dictionary - Unoffical Site,
with really annoying popups
Prison Gangs
Prison History
Prison Labour and Prison Industries
- Private Correctional Companies
- Avalon
Correctional Services, Inc.
- CiviGenics
- Community
Education Centers
- Cornell
Companies - publicly-traded company in the field of corrections,
education, rehabilitation and treatment for adults and youth.
- Correctional
Services Corporation - privatized correctional and detention
management
- Correctional Systems, Inc.
- Corrections
Corporation of America - design, building and management
of prisons, jails and detention facilities, inmate residential
and transportation services
- Management
& Training Corporation - operations for privatized
correctional facilities
- Maranatha Corrections, LLC
- Prison
Health Services - founder of privately managed correctional
healthcare
- Securicor
Custodial Services, Ltd. - largest security company in
the UK that specialises in deployment of security officers,
monitoring, crisis management, and security advice
- Wackenhut
Corrections Corporation -
- AFSCME
(American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees)
- Prison Privatization
- Competitive
Corrections Research Project - part of the Reason Public
Policy Institute
- Corpwatch
- Prison Privatization: The Bottom Line
- Corrections
Connection - PrivateManagement.net
- Forced
Labour, Workhouse-Prisons and the Early Modern State
- North
Carolina Department of Correction: Correction Enterprises--2,000
inmates working in N.C. prison industries
- Not
With Our Money - network of student and community activists
working to end the use of prisons for profit.
- Prison
Privatisation Report International - global developments
in the privatisation of prisons, detention centres, performance
of the leading companies, debate, research, prison industry
lobbying and campaigns against privatisation.
- Private
Prisons: Profits of Crime
- Private
Prisons and Prison Labour - from the Committe to end the
Marion Lockdown
- Privatization
(Yahoo)
- Selective
Celling: Inmate Population in Ohio's Private Prisons
Prison Life
Prison Photographs, Tattoos, and Artwork
Prison Racism
Prison Rape
Prisons and Society: Philosophy, Theory, Ideology
Prison Suicide
Supermax Prisons
Crime
Click here to
suggest a site for inclusion in the directory.
|