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Defining Documents in American History: Prison Reform

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


“Prisons” without Wardens, Walls, or Cells


The Transportation Act of 1717


Felons and Rattlesnakes


Letters from America, Letter VI


Founding Vision for Georgia


A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia, Settlers’ Grievances


Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIV


On Billy the Kid


Jesse James in His Own Defense


Shootout at the O.K. Corral


Antebellum Prisons and Prison Reform


A Visit to the Philadelphia Prison


Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Massachusetts State-Prison


State Prisons and the Penitentiary System Vindicated


Prison Discipline: The Auburn and Pennsylvania Systems Compared


On the Penitentiary System in the United States


First and Twenty-Seventh Annual Reports of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society, Boston


Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts


A Letter from New York


Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States


Prisons & Prison Reform in the Late Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries


The Criminal Insane in the United States and Other Countries


Ten Days in a Mad-House


Sketch of the Life and Work of Linda Gilbert


The Jail as a Perverter of Womanhood


Declaration of Principles, National Prison Congress


The Individual Method of Dealing with Girls and Women Awaiting Court Action


Wall Shadows: A Study in American Prisons


Within Prison Walls


Practical Efforts at Character Building for Jail Prisoners


Fifty Years of Prison Service


The School Idea in Prisons for Adults


Attica Manifesto and Declaration to the People of America


In Prison


Report of the Attorney General on the February 2 and 3, 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico


Ruiz v. Estelle


Volume 2



Prison and Prison Reforms in the 1990s and Twenty-first Century


Madrid v. Gomez


Supermax Prisons: Overview and General Considerations


Lessons from the States: Responsible Prison Reform


Announcement of Second Chance Pell Pilot Program


U.S. Department of Justice Report and Recommendations Concerning the Use of Restrictive Housing


Department of Justice Letter on the FIRST STEP Act


Wartime Incarceration and Punishment


Some Account of the Capture of the Ship Aurora


Fourteen Months in American Bastiles


Habeas Corpus Suspension Act


Narrative of Privations and Sufferings


Nineteen Months a Prisoner of War


Narrative of Prison Life


German Enemy of U.S. Hanged by Mob


“Japanese on the West Coast”


Presidential Proclamation 2526: Alien Enemies—Germans


Presidential Proclamation 2527: Alien Enemies—Italians


Executive Order 9066: Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians


To All Persons of Japanese Ancestry


An Interview with an Older Nisei


Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War


Executive Summary of the Fay Report


Race, Ethnicity, and Imprisonment


Accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre


Life Among the Paiutes, Trouble on the Paiute Reservation


The Indian Policy in Its Relations to Crime and Pauperism


The Convict Lease System


The New Slavery in the South


The Repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans


Southern Legislators Protest Proposed Anti-lynching Legislation


Appendixes


Chronology


Web Resources


Bibliography