The American Prison System
- ISBN-10
- 0824209923
- ISBN-13
- 9780824209926
- Category
- Social Science / Penology
- Pages
- 194
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- H.W. Wilson
- Author
- Peter G. Herman
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