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Encyclopedia of American prisons, editors, Marilyn D. McShane, Frank P. Williams III

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Encyclopedia of American prisons

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editors, Marilyn D. McShane, Frank P. Williams III

Garland reference library of the humanities, vol. 1748

Accreditation -- Administration -- Administrative segregation -- AIDS -- Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary -- Alcohol treatment programs in prison -- American Correctional Association -- Angola (Louisiana State Penitentiary) -- Architecture -- Argot -- Ashurst-Sumners Act -- Attica -- Auburn system -- Bates, Sanford -- Bedford Hills Correctional Facility -- Bennett, James V. -- Beto, George J. -- Boot camps -- Brockway, Zebulon -- Building tenders -- Chain gangs -- Chaplains -- Children of prisoners: 1. Mothers' issues, 2. Fathers' issues -- Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act -- Classifications systems -- Co-correctional facilities -- Commissaries -- Community relations -- Conjugal visits -- Contact visits -- Conte, William -- Contraband -- Corporal punishment -- Correctional officers: 1. History, 2. Selection and training, 3. Career opportunities, 4. Subculture, 5. Stress, 6. Turnover -- Crowding, Court rulings -- Davis, Katherine Bement -- Death row -- Detainers -- Determinate sentences -- Developmentally disabled offenders -- Diagnostic and reception centers -- Diet and food service -- Disabled inmates -- Discipline -- Dix, Dorothea Lynde -- Double celling -- Drug and alcohol use in prison -- Drug treatment -- Due process rights of prisoners -- Eastern State Penitentiary -- Educational programs -- Education of All Handicapped Children Act -- Elderly inmates -- Elmira Reformatory -- Escapes -- Executions in the United States -- Federal Bureau of Prisons -- Films -- Force, use of -- Fort Leavenworth -- Gangs -- Gill, Howard Belding -- Good time credit -- Harris, Mary Belle -- Haviland, John -- Hawes-Cooper Act -- Health care -- History of prisons: 1. The Jacksonian Era, 2. The Progressive Era, 3. Modern prisons: 1960 to the present -- Homicide -- Illegal aliens in prison -- Indeterminate sentences -- Industry: 1. History, 2. Current programs in prison industry -- Inmate self-governance -- Inmate supervision : the new generation philosophy -- Interstate Compact Agreement -- Jailhouse lawyers -- Judicial intervention -- Lease system -- Legal issues: 1. Historical background, 2. Habeas corpus, 3. Civil rights, 4. Constitutional issues in prison operations, 5. Prison crimes, 6. Employee legal issues -- Life without parole -- Long-term prisoners and lifers -- MacCormick, Austin Harbutt -- McGee, Richard A. -- Marion Penitentiary -- Medical experiments -- Mentally ill prisoners -- Mutilation -- National Prison Project -- Newgate Prison -- News media -- Norfolk Prison -- Osborne, Thomas Mott -- Panopticon -- Parole boards -- Patuxent Institution -- Pennsylvania Prison Society -- Pennsylvania system -- Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons -- Prerelease programs -- President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, Task Force Report: Corrections -- Prisonization -- Privacy -- Private prisons -- Protective custody -- Public Information Office and Public Relations -- Racial conflict -- Recidivism -- Recreation programs -- Reformatory -- Rehabilitation Act of 1973 -- Rehabilitation programs -- Religion in prison -- Research in prison -- Riots -- Rush, Benjamin -- San Quentin Prison -- Searches: strip searches -- Security and control: 1. Perimeter security, 2. Internal security -- Sentences, excessive -- Sex offender programming -- Sexual exploitation in prison -- Sing Sing Prison -- Site selection and construction of prisons -- Snitch -- Stateville -- Suicide -- Technology -- Treatment plans -- Trusties -- Unions: 1. Correctional officers, 2. Inmates -- Violence -- Visitation -- Vocational programs -- Volunteers: 1. Citizens, 2. Inmates -- Walla Walla, Washington State Penitentiary -- Walnut Street Jail -- Wardens -- Wines, Enoch Cobb -- Women Inmates: 1. History, 2. Current issues -- Work programs -- Work-release programs -- Youth in prison