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(1983) The American Prison: From the Beginning: A Pictorial History..
Moeller, H. G.; Travisono, Anthony P.; Tucker, Julie N.; Olsson, Barbara Hadley; American Correctional Association. American Correctional Association 978-0-942974-48-5

(1978) American Prisons: A History of Good Intentions.
Blake McKelvey. Patterson Smith

(2007) The Archaeology of Institutional Confinement.
Casella, Eleanor Conlin. University Press of Florida 978-0-8130-3139-2

(1994) Benevolent Repression Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement.
Pisciotta, Alexander W.. University Press 978-0-8147-6891-4

(2012) Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America.
Tarter, Michele Lise; Bell, Richard. University of Georgia Press 978-0-8203-4119-4

(2008) Controlling the Dangerous Classes: A History of Criminal Justice in America.
Shelden, Randall G.. Pearson Allyn and Bacon 978-0-205-57189-5

(2015) A Country Called Prison: Mass Incarceration and the Making of a New Nation.
Looman, Mary D.; Carl, John D.. Oxford University Press 978-0-19-021105-9

(2009) Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America.
Cusac, Anne-Marie. Yale University Press 978-1-282-41588-1

(1922) The Development of American Prisons and Prison Customs, 1776-1845, with Special Reference to Early Institutions in the State of New York,.
Lewis, Orlando Faulkland. The Prison Association of New York

(1996) Encyclopedia of American Prisons.
McShane, Marilyn D.; Williams, Franklin P.. Garland Pub 978-0-8153-4001-0

(1996) Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950.
Finzsch, Norbert; Jütte, Robert. Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-56070-2

(2019) Living by Inches - The Smells, Sounds, Tastes, and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons.
Kutzler, Evan A.. The University of North Carolina Press 978-1-4696-5377-8

(2011) The Medieval Prison: A Social History.
Geltner, G.. Princeton University Press

(2014) Pain and Retribution: A Short History of British Prisons, 1066 to the Present.
Wilson, David. Reaktion Books 978-1-7802-3323-9

(2018) Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons Familiar Responses to an Extraordinary Crisis during the American Civil War.
Zombek, Angela M.. Kent State University Press 978-1-63101-340-9

(2005) Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy Liberty and Power in the Early Republic.
Kann, Mark E.. University Press 978-0-8147-4867-1

(1992) The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Early America.
Hirsch, Adam Jay. Yale University Press 978-0-300-04297-9

(2005) While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War.
Sanders, Charles W.. Louisiana State University Press 978-0-8071-3061-2

(1998) With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America.
Christianson, Scott. Northeastern University Press 978-1-55553-364-9