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• Society: Issues: Crime and Justice: Articles  (8)

• Alternatives to Incarceration - An overview of the various forms of community corrections.
• Atlantic Monthly on the Prison-Industrial Complex - An analysis of the public and private prison systems. In-depth piece on the economics of the prison system, with photos.
• The Bourne Trust - An outline of the services the trust offers to prisoners and their families.
• Cell Door Magazine - 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.
• Donny, Life of a Lifer - A book written by Donald Johnson who is serving a life sentence at Pelican Bay in SHU. Donny was also featured in Arts and Entertainment Television's Investigative Reports, "solitary confinement".
• Incarceration Rates by Race - Dr. David A. Camp examines racial imbalances in incarcertaion rates in Oklahoma.
• Prisons in Crisis - Detailed artilcle on Watchtower (a religious publication's site) addressing the question, "Can prisons rehabilitate criminals?"
• Rape used as control in U.S. prisons - By Neve Gordon, from the National Catholic Reporter.
• Sick On The Inside - Harper's Magazine article by Wil S. Hylton---The Plague of The Prison Correctional HMO
• When The Bough Breaks - Companion web site to the documentary which explores the lives of children in three families whose mothers are locked up for nonviolent crimes.

• Prison Rates Among Blacks Reach a Peak, Report Finds - 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.] (April 7, 2003)
• Humanizing the Prisons - 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. (August, 1911)