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U.S. Sites |
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| The
Other Side of the Wall |
This
is a U.S. site focusing on prisons and the death penalty. If
features articles from prisoners and prison critics, summaries
and full text of “decisions and provides links to other
online information on U.S. Prisons. This is one of the best
U.S. sites and its links provide a multitude of resources. It
even provides a listing of C.D.’s of prison songs. |
| Prison
Activist Resource Centre (PARC), |
This
is the website of the Prison Activist Resource Centre (PARC),
a U.S. based site for “progressive and radical information
on prisons and the criminal prosecution system”. The site
is host to a number of other prisoners right’s sites, many
of which are based in California. The site has large number
of “Prison Activist Links”, including prison activist
organizations around the world including sites on prisoner support,
prison law and prison activism. This site has a useful annotated
bibliography. |
| Fortune
Society |
This
is the site of the Fortune Society, a U.S. based organization
staffed primarily by ex-offenders, dedicated to educating the
public about prisons, criminal justice issues, and the root
causes of crime. The site contains issues of the societies’
publication, fortune news, including its Summer 2001 issue on
supermax prisons. (www.fortunesociety.org/supermax.pdf). |
| Stanford
Prison Experiment |
The
famous Stanford Prison experiment is reconstructed on this site
through a slide show and information about this classic psychology
experiment. The site includes a thirty year retrospective on
the experiment together with Professor Zimbardo’s reflections
on the experiment. |
| Alliance
of Incarcerated Canadians/Foreigners in American Prisons |
This
is the site of the Alliance of Incarcerated Canadians/Foreigners/American
Prisons, and contains a wide ranging source of information and
links to prison related issues. This site contains a great deal
of information on the U.S. criminal justice system, including
legal research links to judgments of the U.S. Supreme Court,
and U.S. Courts of Appeal. |
| Prison
Legal News |
Prison
legal news is a monthly journal edited by a Washington State
prisoner Paul Wright. It is available by subscription. PLN reports
on U.S. court decisions, affecting prisoners and is aimed at
“helping prisoners and their supporters organize themselves
to have a voice, and to be a progressive force in developing
a public policy debate around the issue of crime and punishment”.
The site has a link to U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of
Appeals decisions and to U.S. and State Department of Corrections
websites. |
| Prison
Zone |
This
is a site dedicated to prisoner’s art, writing and photography. |
| Prison
Sucks |
Prisonsucks.com is a clearinghouse for useful, verifiable statistics about the crime control industry. An interesting feature is the “Incarceration clock” which records the number of prisoners in US prisons and jails and is updated at least twice a year based on the latest statistics from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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