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Mass Incarceration by Rebecca Aldridge (Ed.)
Call Number: HV9469.M38 2018
ISBN: 9781534500457
Publication Date: 2017
Crime, Prisons, and Jails by Gale Cengage Learning (Ed.)
Call Number: HV6789.E93 2017
ISBN: 9781410325587
Publication Date: 2017
America's Prisons by Jack Lasky (Ed.)
Call Number: HV9471.A49 2016
ISBN: 9780737775365
Publication Date: 2015
Mental Disability and the Death Penalty by Michael L. Perlin
Call Number: KF9227.C2P47 2013
ISBN: 9781442200562
Publication Date: 2013

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