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The encyclopedia of American prisons / Carl Sifakis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sifakis, Carl.
- Series:
- Facts on File crime library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisons--United States--Encyclopedias.
- Prisons.
- Prisoners--United States--Biography--Encyclopedias.
- Prisoners.
- Correctional personnel--United States--Biography--Encyclopedias.
- Correctional personnel.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Encyclopedias.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Other Title:
- American prisons
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Checkmark Books, [2003]
- Summary:
- The United States currently holds the highest incarceration rate per capita of allWestern nations. There are more than 2 million men and women incarcerated in the U.S.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0816045119
- 0816050724
- OCLC:
- 49225908
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