CRIMINOLOGY LINKS

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

PENOLOGY & PRISONS

This is not an exhaustive list but a quirky guide to sites about prisons and the people who live and work in and around them.
One rapidly growing area is the use of the Internet as "the fifth estate", the last avenue of appeal for prisoners on Death Row.

  1. The Penal Lexicon
    Excellent UK site.
  2. A Growth Industry
    Privatisation prospectus? California
  3. Security Categorisation in Prisons
    UK PhD. student's work in progress.
    (Great site design work as well).

  4. The Surfing Monkey
    Register here for 5. Letters from Death Row
    This site is highly recommended for anyone who needs to be involved in talkback radio.

  5. Letters From Death Row
    Letters from a man on California's Death Row, written to a radio talkback host who has published them on the Internet.
    Register at the Surfing Monkey to access the letters.
    These letters ought to be compulsory reading for anyone who has never spent long periods of time in gaols taking statements from prisoners.

  6. Justice Action's Prisons and Prisoners
    Australian activist resouces list.

  7. JusticeNet Prison- Issues Desk
    US activist site

  8. Bob Brandoff's Home Page
    A former prison officer's pages.
    Good section about a prison riot.

  9. Society and Culture:Crime:Correction and Rehabilitation:
    Prison Issues, Yahoo list.
  10. Prison Pen Pals
    More from Yahoo.
  11. Prisons
    Part of a US criminal law site.
  12. Corrections Management Inc.
    US private prison operator's pages.
    Good criminology links.
  13. Isolation of a prisoner
    Art work.
  14. The Story of Darlinghurst Jail
    An early NSW gaol
  15. The Electric Chair
    Museum page. With pictures.
  16. Fulham Correctional Centre
    Ministerial press release. Victoria.
  17. Old Jail Museum
    Magazine article: the museum curator at a circular gaol in the US
  18. Shackled to the Stone
    The life and death of a writer living in Nazi Germany.
  19. Eastern State Penitentiary
    Early US gaol.
  20. HM Prison Service
    UK prison authority.
  21. Free Burma Coalition
    Includes a description of the Burmese gaol holding political prisoners.
  22. Investigation of Certain Operations in the Mississippi Prison System As Implemented by the Mississippi Department of Corrections
    Report of the state auditor: internal accounting, drugs and gangs.
  23. The Black Peoples' Prison Survival Guide
    US article
  24. Prisons and Prison Law
    US
  25. More in U.S. Are in Prisons, Report Says
    N.Y. Times, Aug 10, 1995
  26. The U.S. House of Representatives
    Internet Law Library
    Crime, Law Enforcement, and Prisons: General
  27. The Prisons Handbook: Guide to UK Criminal Justice Internet Resources

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