Penology and punishment

'The sentence of this court is that you be taken from this place to whence you came, and from there to a place of lawful execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you be dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul'-Extract from judicial death sentence, England c.

Mass incarceration has been an ongoing problem in the United States.

Mass incarceration has been an ongoing problem in the United States.

Incarceration has a long and inglorious history, from dungeons in the bowels of castles to oppressive penal colonies in Australia.

Widespread poverty continued to exist in Durham at the start of the twentieth century.

Jim Marrs presents the official government pronouncement on 9/11 as an obvious conspiracy.

Justice is on trial in the United States.

The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment.

“Between Two Worlds is an extraordinary story of how an innocent young woman got caught up in the current of political events and met individuals whose stories vividly depict human rights violations in Iran.

Urszula Muskus (1903-1972) spent sixteen years as a prisoner of Stalinist Russia.

What I hope this timely and fascinating book does is to take the reader beyond the lurid interest in art by society's outcasts, to discovering the hugely positive role art plays in prison life - Grayson Perry.

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This innovative book tells the fascinating tale of the long histories of violence, punishment, and the human body, and how they are all connected.

Welcome to the Washington State Department of Corrections and one officer's journey to navigate his way through the system while trying to balance his personal life.

n Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Hardt, is an international bestseller.