In the age of American mass incarceration, a complex legal regime governs prison conditions and presents a host of controversial questions at the intersection o

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States has increased fivefold during the last four decades.

A compelling examination of the highly criticized use of long-term solitary confinement in Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary during the nineteenth centu

An overview of the criminal justice system in the United States that reviews the history of prisons and the penal system from the beginning of the seventeenth c

In the past 30 years, the population of prisoners in the United States has expanded almost 5-fold, correctional facilities are increasingly overcrowded, and mor