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American prison literature is literature written by Americans who are incarcerated. It is a distinct literary phenomenon that is increasingly studied...

Prison literature is a literary genre characterized by literature that is written while the author is confined in a location against his or her will,...

in St. Augustine, Florida, built the first substantial prison in North America in 1570. Some of the first structures built in English-settled America...

civilians – in internment camps. In American English, the terms prison and jail have separate definitions, though this is not always adhered to in casual speech...

de la Sorbonne, is founded in Paris. 1298–1299 – Marco Polo dictates his Travels to Rustichello da Pisa while in prison in Genoa, according to tradition...

science fiction, prison literature, environmentalism, the Vietnam War and its aftermath, and American cultural history. He was instrumental in helping to debunk...

(2016-07-27). "Linguistic creativity in American prison settings". Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature. 40 (1): 81. doi:10.17951/lsmll.2016...

Hỏa Lò Prison (Vietnamese: [hwâː lɔ̀], Nhà tù Hỏa Lò; French: Prison Hỏa Lò) was a prison in Hanoi originally used by the French colonists in Indochina...

Prison rape commonly refers to the rape of inmates in prison by other inmates or prison staff. In 2001, Human Rights Watch estimated that at least 4.3...

literature. Thomas Mott Osborne's tenure as warden of Sing Sing was brief but dramatic. Osborne arrived in 1914 with a reputation as a radical prison...

The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually,...

A military prison is a prison operated by a military. Military prisons are used variously to house prisoners of war, unlawful combatants, those whose...

protection of free expression in the United States and worldwide through the advancement of literature and human rights. PEN America is the largest of the more...

The prison abolition movement is a network of groups and activists that seek to reduce or eliminate prisons and the prison system, and replace them with...

Prison education is any educational activity that occurs inside prison. Courses can include basic literacy programmes, secondary school equivalency programmes...

a list of notable people who have died in prison, whether in prison or in hospital while still serving a prison sentence. This list does not include inmates...

Victor Folke Nelson, have also contributed to the theories and literature on American prison reform. This is founded on the "eye for an eye, tooth for a...

Bentham's panopticon prison in the social structures of 1970s Europe. This led to the widespread use of the panopticon in literature, comic books, computer...

currently incarcerated in America. Over 30% of these women are convicted prostitutes. Much of the research on the sex industry in prisons focuses on the experiences...

Oz is an American prison drama television series set at a fictional men's prison created and principally written by Tom Fontana. It was the first one-hour...