AP Seminar

Unit II- Examining Prison Facilities

Beginning Research: Background Information

Search Terms: Prison Research
PrisonStudy.pdf



bankingonbondage_20111102.pdf

Selecting a Prison Facility

Department of Corrections Facilities by State



Federal Bureau of Prisons


Prison System Reach

Secondary Resources and Scholarly Articles (Click down)

Database for Primary and Secondary Scholarly Articles

JSTOR- see database page above- academic journals and vetted articles

Proquest Central Student- see database page above- search by topic for newspaper articles, journals, and magazine articles. You can limit by primary or secondary source.

Gale-One File Criminal Justice- see database page above- search by topic for newspaper articles, journals, and magazine articles. You can limit by primary or secondary source.

Research CT- see database page above- select Colleges and Universities, select the Academic Search Premier Database.


Websites

Resource statistics



The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.


This group promotes a fair and Just Criminal Justice system


National Women's Law Center

Mothers Behind Bars: A state-by-state report card and analysis of federal policies on conditions of confinement for pregnant and parenting women and the effect on their children


50 state profiles, plus one for D.C. and another for United States as a whole, draw on graphs made from reports issued as part of our National Incarceration Briefing Series.


Videos

Stream the Video: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, UConn database, select Academic Video Online search terms: "The Prison in Twelve Landscapes".

-The Independent Lens film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes examines the effect prisons have on the communities around them in both positive and negative ways. Prisons can stimulate the economy and create jobs, but they also loom monolithically over our lives. See trailer below.

Story, Brett. “The Prison in Twelve Landscapes Trailer.” Vimeo, 20 Oct. 2021, https://vimeo.com/105073038.


Check out EHS-MLA formatting website