In 1777 John Howard wrote The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons. Two centuries lat

Written by philanthropist James Neild, this 1812 publication exposes the harsh conditions of debtors' prisons and advocates penal reform.

Prison studies has experienced a period of great creativity in recent years, and this collection draws together some of the field's most exciting and innovative