Encyclopedia of American Prisons

The fact that America has the highest rate of incarceration per capita of any Western nation heightens the relevance of a reference book about American prisons. The author of Encyclopedia of American Prisons, Carl Sifakis, a former crime reporter, now writes extensively on criminology and deviant behavior. This is his latest work in a series of volumes published by Facts on File. Some of the other titles from this series include: Encyclopedia of American Crime (1982), Encyclopedia of Assassinations (2001), and The Mafia Encyclopedia: From Accardo to Zwillman (1999).

Encyclopedia of American Prisons is historical in scope and...