Prisons of the World

Front Cover -- Prisons Of The World -- Copyright Information -- Table Of Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The World Of Prisons -- Peterhead -- Brixton -- The Final Straw: 7 July 1991 -- Charting The Way Forward -- Encouraging Public Scrutiny -- Comment -- 3 Prisons Of The World -- Canada And The United States: 35 Years Of Progress? -- Pelican Bay, California -- Ashley Smith, Canada -- Comment -- 4 International Centre For Prison Studies -- What Is This Thing We Call The Prison? -- International Centre For Prison Studies -- Comment -- 5 Women: The Forgotten Minority 'ill-adapted Correctional Policies Borrowed From Models Designed For Men' -- Correctional Service Of Canada -- The Numbers -- Prisons Are Primarily Male Institutions -- What This Can Mean In Practice -- Gatesville, Texas -- El Salvador -- Australia -- Equal Outcomes Require Different Approaches -- Comment -- 6 The Legacy Of The Gulag -- Belarus: An Unreconstructed Outlier -- Moscow Sizo No. 2 (butyrka) 1992 -- Moscow And Ryazan, 1993 -- Comment -- 7 European Committee For The Prevention Of Torture -- The United Kingdom -- Committee For The Prevention Of Torture -- Russia -- Kresty -- Chelyabinsk Zlatoust -- Comment -- 8 Regional Contrasts: Cambodia And Japan -- Cambodia: Coming Out Of Year Zero -- The Director Of Prisons -- Prison T3, Phnom Penh -- P.j. Prison, Phnom Penh -- Takmao Prison, Kandal Province -- Kompong Cham Prison -- Prey Sar Prison -- Siem Reap Prison -- The Situation In 2021 -- Postscript: Tuol Sleng -- Japan: The Prison As A Reflection Of A Society -- Fuchu Prison -- Tokyo Detention House -- The High Proportion Of Elderly Prisoners -- Prisoners Under Sentence Of Death -- Prison Privatisation -- Comment -- 9 Latin America: The Iron Fist Or The New Model? Two Vignettes From Contemporaneous Notes -- Villahermosa Prison, Cali, Colombia, May 1995 -- La Planta Prison, Caracas, Venezuela, February 2000 -- Colombia -- Venezuela -- Guatemala -- El Salvador -- Violence Unbounded -- Dominican Republic -- Comment -- 10 Barbados And The Inter-american Court Of Human Rights -- Her Majesty's Prison Glendairy -- Harrison Point -- The Situation In 2007 -- Inter-american Court Of Human Rights -- Comment -- 11 Sub-saharan Africa: An Expensive Colonial Legacy -- South Africa -- An Aside: Prisoner Voting -- Department Of Corrections -- Gambia -- Mozambique Visits To Prisons -- Prison Staff Training Course -- Comment -- 12 The Jericho Monitoring Mission -- First Request -- Backstory 1 -- Ramallah: March 2002 -- Backstory 2 -- Jericho: April-may 2002 -- Tuesday 30 April -- Wednesday 1 May -- Meeting With Israeli Security Personnel -- Further Briefing At The Consulate -- The Transfer -- Thursday 2 May -- Return To Jericho -- Press Conference -- Friday 3 May -- Backstory 3 -- Visit In July 2002 -- Follow-up Visits -- Backstory 4 -- 14 March 2006: The Final Act -- The Aftermath -- Comment -- 13 Towards 'a Better Way' -- A Brief Historical Review Who Are The Prisoners? Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.