The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the place that

The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the place that

The author tells of his own appalling treatment when in detention and how it informed and inspired a lifetime vocation to struggle for the rights of all prisone

The 1970s were tumultuous years in American prisons, beginning with the bloody uprising at Attica and ending with the even bloodier one at New Mexico State. The

In the folklore of World War II, the memory of those heroes who staged 'Great Escapes' from POW camps still endures. But what of the other side of the coin: the