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- A Prisoner's Dictionary - A dictionary of prison slang.
dictionary.prisonwall.org
- American Community Corrections Institute - ACCI produces cognitive restructuring and lifeskills workbooks for youth and adults in corrections and probation settings.
www.accilifeskills.com
- Automatic Cigarette Lighter - The Automatic Cigarette Lighter was designed for use in maximum-security correctional facilities where access to lighters and matches is prohibited for safety purposes.
www.leishman.com.au/index2.htm
- Backfire: When Incarceration Increases Crime - Examines the ways in which prison may have inadvertently affected crime rates.
www.doc.state.ok.us/DOCS/OCJRC/Ocjrc96/Ocjrc7.htm
- California's Crowded Prisons - Article and statistics on the problems generated by overcrowding in California Department of Corrections facilities.
www.fdungan.com/prison.htm
- Canadian Federal Inmates - Offers assistance, information to Canadian Federal Inmates' and their family members.
www.homestead.com/justice01/CanadianFederalPrisoner.html
- Citizens For Effective Justice (CFEJ) - Working towards a solution which would reduce crime and prison overcrowding.
www.reducecrime.org
- Competitive Corrections Research Project - Aims to explore and evaluate the role of the private sector in corrections. Features news and publications.
www.rppi.org/privatization/ccrp/index.html
- Consequences of Mandatory Minimum Prison Terms - A Summary of recent findings (1994) in PDF format from the Federal Judicial Center.
www.fjc.gov/CRIMLAWPRO/cons_mand_minim/cons_mand_minim.html
- Correctional News - News and ideas related to the design, construction, management, and operation of prisons.
www.correctionalnews.com
- Corrections Drug Testing - Drug testing product information.
www.correctionsdrugtesting.com
- David Ferleger - ADA and Prisons - Selected cases on issue of applicability of Americans With Disabilities Act to prisons.
www.ferleger.com/adapri.html
- Donna's Doc - Information concerning departments of corrections, private prisons and law enforcement.
donnasdoc.intercosmos.com
- Escapes and Disturbances - Media excerpts about prison/jail escapes and disturbances.
sun.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/escapes/escapes.html
- Federal Prison - A Survival Guide - Practical advice to ease the uncertainty, depression and pain of family members and the person destined to spend time in a Federal Prison.
www.federalprison.com
- Friends and Family of Prisoners - This is a place for anyone who is in some way connected to a prisoner, through friendship, love and/or family ties.
forums.delphiforums.com/PrisonerFriends/start
- Growing Up Behind Bars: Youth Development and Crime - Presents an exploration of the net impact of confinement on youth age 16 and under.
www.doc.state.ok.us/DOCS/OCJRC/Ocjrc96/Ocjrc29.htm
- Human Rights Watch: No Escape - Male Rape in U.S. Prisons - Report claiming that state authorities are responsible for widespread prisoner-on-prisoner sexual abuse in U.S. men's prisons. Video clips, prisoner statements, and case histories.
www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison
- Human Rights Watch: Prison Conditions and the Treatment of Prisoners - Information on prison conditions around the world, international human rights standards applicable to prisoners.
www.hrw.org/advocacy/prisons
- Human Writes - Non-profit organization finds penpals for people on death row.
www.humanwrites.org
- Inmate Central - Support groups, legal links, inmate art, message boards, chat, death row data base, and pen pals.
www.inmatecentral.com
- Inmates Aid for USA and Worldwide - Fee based photo pen pal directory. Legal ads and financial support for selected cases.
www.inmatesaid.com
- Justice Volunteerism - Association is committed to improving the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems through citizen participation.
www.justicevolunteers.org
- Mother's Day in Prison - An article from 1997 from the San Francisco Bay Guardian about celebrating Mother's Day in prisons.
www.sfbg.com/News/31/32/Features/prison.html
- MyInmateMail - Prison Pen Pal and Ministry
www.myinmatemail.com
- Nancy Moran - Independent Prisoner Advocate - Promotes the well being of prisoners in Maryland and, to a limited extent, those released from prison.
www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6774
- National Corrections Corporation - Company provides correctional facility designs, products and financing services.
nationalcorrections.com
- North Carolina Division of Prisons - Information about the prison system and its programs.
www.doc.state.nc.us/dop
- Outlawzzz Free Press - Variety of prisoners's artistic and literary contributions
www.OutlawzzzFreePress.com
- Prison Legal News - Reports on court decisions affecting prisoners and contains information designed to help prisoners vindicate their rights in the judicial system.
www.prisonlegalnews.org
- Prisoners and Punishment - Prisoners and Punishment, from your About.com Guide
crime.about.com/newsissues/crime/msub9.htm?pid=2771&cob=home
- Privatization Database: Corrections - An analysis of trends, practices, research findings and cost savings potential of privatized prisons.
www.privatization.org/Collection/SpecificServiceAreas/Corrections-state.html
- Secure Corrections - Educational paper on security in prisons.
www.uaa.alaska.edu/just/just110/prison2.html
- Sentencing Scoresheet Compliance Report - This report details the compliance of each Florida judicial circuit in submitting sentencing scoresheets for offenders convicted of felonies between July 1, 1998 and June 30, 1999.
www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/scoresheet/index.html
- Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners - Complete text of the United Nations treaty.
www.hri.ca/uninfo/treaties/34.shtml
- Substance Abuse Among Female Prisoners in Oklahoma - Using a volunteer sample of 547 women prisoners, this study compares female drug users and nondrug users by race.
www.doc.state.ok.us/DOCS/OCJRC/OCJRC94/940650d.htm
- Tattoos: Recognition and Interpretation - Tattoo recognition and interpretation is a valuable tool when dealing with state prison parolees.
www.convictsandcops.com/tattoo.htm
- The Aging of Prison Populations: Directions for Oklahoma - Examines the effect that an agning prison population has on the quantity and diversity of services prisons provide.
www.doc.state.ok.us/DOCS/OCJRC/Ocjrc95/950725a.htm
- The Prison Reform Trust - Aims to create a just, humane, and effective penal system. Research, publications, current projects, and event information.
www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk
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