Online Bibliographies

For more information about topics covered on this site, please refer to bibliographies at the end of each essay.  Most of the citations are available on line, and a number of organizations have their own publications available in a downloadable format. Bibliographies below may be helpful for less specific sources.

Family Connection Network Reading Room

http://www.fcnetwork.org/read.html

Includes on line sources on children of prisoners and inmate families in general. Conference proceedings, articles, press clipping as well as links to major criminal justice resources are included.

The Prisonactivist Bibliography

http://prisonactivist.org/bibliography/

The bibliography includes books, reports and pamphlets regarding prisons and incarceration.  This list has been prepared for educators and prison activists.  It includes a number of alternative materials, and less of mainstream literature.

Florida House of Representatives Justice Council Committee on Corrections

http://www.fcc.state.fl.us/fcc/reports/family/fambib.html

This is bibliography of the report titled “Maintaining Family Contact When a Family Member Goes to Prison: An Examination of State Policies on Mail, Visiting, and Telephone Access”.  Includes numerous references to topics related to families of prisoners.

Crime Prevention Effectiveness Program, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland

http://www.bsos.umd.edu/ccjs/corrections/Doc/Copy%20of%20wareport.htm#Appc

This is the bibliography of the report titled “What works in corrections? An examination of the effectiveness of the type of rehabilitation programs offered by Washington State department of corrections”.  Bibliography includes numerous references to reports and evaluations of different programs and treatments in and out of correctional facilities. References are sorted by topic and chapter for easier use.

Other Sources

The Prisonact-list archives

http://prisonactivist.org/pipermail/prisonact-list

The prisonact-list is run by the Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) in order to keep prison activists, as well as the public, informed on the prison crisis in the US, and the world.  This page includes an archive of messages and posted articles by author, date and subject for last 6 years.  Many daily paper articles that are not longer available on the net, can be found in this archive.

Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, Inc. (AELE)

http://www.aele.org/Jailcase.html

ALELE is a non-profit organization that provides educational, legal and other professional services and assistance to the Nation's law enforcement community. This site contains law library of case summaries on the topics of corrections law for jails, prisons and detention facilities, civil liability of law enforcement agencies, as well as instructions on how to obtain full text documents.

Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC)

http://www.prisonactivist.org/

Includes information and sources on prisons and the criminal prosecution system. Covers issues such as prison crisis, political prisoners, women prisoners, the death penalty, prison law, and prison activism.

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