SCHR: Human Rights in Prisons and
Jails, Books and Films
BOOKS
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Sheldon Krantz & Lynn S. Branham, The Law of Sentencing, Corrections and
Prisoners Rights: Cases and Materials (4th ed. 1991)
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Norval Morris & David J. Rothman, eds., The Oxford History of the Prison: The
Practice of Punishment in Western Society (Oxford University Press 1995)
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Tom Murton & Joe
Hyams, Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal
(Grove Press 1969)
Michael Mushlin, The Rights of Prisoners (Shepherds/McGraw Hill, 2d ed
1993)
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David M. Oshinsky, Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow
Justice (Free Press 1996)
Ira Robbins, Prisoners in the Law (Clark Boardman, 1986 & revised
thereafter)
Martin A. Schwartz & John E. Kirklin, Section 1983 Litigation: Claims,
Defenses, and Fees (2d ed., Wiley 1991)
FILMS
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Shawshank Redemption (1994 fictional account of a man's
"adjustment" to incarceration, based on Stephen King novel)
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I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (influential 1932 movie about chain
gang brutality in Georgia)
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Brubaker (1980 film with Robert Redford as reform-minded prison warden of
corrupt and brutal prison)
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