Over the last 30 years, a substantial literature on the history of American and European prisons has developed. This collection is among the first in English to

Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the worl

This book engages with a controversial issue, namely the establishment of penal colonies and concentration camps in imperial spaces, which have informed ongoing

While visiting over twenty prisons as well as lockups in at least five different cities throughout South Africa, we found significant improvements had been made

For the past four decades, a rich scholarship has investigated the emergence of the prison in Europe and North America, mainly the connection between institutio