After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States has increased fivefold during the last four decades.

A selection of Tocqueville's writings on America together with letters and sketches from his traveling companion, Gustave de Beaumont.

A history of the United States prison system and its many changes over the years.

A compelling examination of the highly criticized use of long-term solitary confinement in Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary during the nineteenth centu