Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
PART I - OVERVIEW
Introduction
Views From Inside
PART II - BUREAU OF PRISON POLICY
Arriving in Prison
Architecture and Design
Classification and Security
Discipline
Drugs and Substance Abuse Treatment
Education
Food and Commissary
Health and Medical Services
Private Prisons
Release Preparation
Religion
Segregation, Death Row, and Supermaximum Secure Facilities
Sexual Relations in Prison
Staff
Violence in Prison
Visits
Women in Prison
Work
Conclusion
Appendix A: Bureau of Prisons Facilities
Appendix B: Charities and Services for Prisoners and Their Families
References
Further Suggested Readings
Index
About the Author

About the Author

Mary Bosworth is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University. Her research interests include prisons, race, and gender. She is the author of Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women’s Prisons (1999).