Women in Prison. Concomitant with the increasing numbers of incarcerated women, the literature has also been expanding. Among the more noteworthy books published since the beginning of the 1990s include: Joycelyn M. Pollock-Byrne, Women, Prison, and Crime (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1990); James A. Gondles, Female Offenders: Meeting the Needs of a Neglected Population (Lanham, MD: American Correctional Association, 1992); Kathryn Watterson, Women in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996); Cynthia Blinn, ed., Maternal Ties: A Selection of Programs for Female Offenders (Lanham, MD: American Correctional Association, 1997); Andi Rierden, The Farm: Life Inside a Women's Prison (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997); and Cristina Rathbone, A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars (New York: Random House, 2005).
"The Shawshank Redemption." This is an excellent film about prison life and is available on video. A thorough review of the film by James J. Sobel of the State University of New York at Albany can be found in the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture 4 (1996): 15-17.
The Corrections Connection Network. This is a useful Web site with all types of information and sources in the corrections field, including news and events, bulletin boards, employment and educational opportunities to name but a few. Internet http://www.corrections.com.
Prison Life. There many interesting books on this topic. Among the more recent are: Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (New York: Random House, 2000); John Irwin and James Austin, It's About Time: America's Imprisonment Binge (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1997); Elliott Currie, Crime and Punishment in America (New York: Henry Holt, 1998); and Mary K. Stohr and Craig K Hemmens, The Inmate Prison Experience (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003).
Sex in Prison. For an interesting collection of papers on this topic, see The Prison Journal 80 (December 2000). Christopher Hensley, ed., Prison Sex: Practice and Policy (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002); Christopher Hensley, Richard Tewksbury, and Mary Koscheski, "The characteristics and motivations behind female prison sex," Women & Criminal Justice 13,2/3 (2002): 125-139.
Religion in Prison. See Jody L. Sundt and Francis T. Cullen, "The Role of the Contemporary Prison Chaplain," The Prison Journal 78(1998): 271-298. Jody L. Sundt and Francis T. Cullen, "The correctional ideology of prison chaplains: A national survey," Journal of Criminal Justice 30,5 (2002): 369-385; Andrew Skotnicki, Religion and the development of the American penal system (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000); and Todd R. Clear, et al., "The value of religion in prison: An inmate perspective," Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 16,1(2000): 53-74.
