Prisoners and the Law focuses on legal issues commonly affecting the prison population, including AIDS, drugs, overcrowding, security, appeals, weapons, correspondence, visitation issues, and prisoner safety. In-depth articles, written by leading authorities, cover topics such as:

• The future of prison reform

• Restitution

• Proposals for a new correctional system

• Inmate welfare funds

• Prisoner, prison, probation, and parole statistics

• Incisive articles, written by some of the nation's leading authorities, on the development and present status of this evolving area of law

• The most recent changes and developments in the field

Use this title as a resource for issues relating to private incarceration, disenfranchisement of ex-felons, deaf prisoners' rights, and other legal challenges. Statistics on prisoners, prisons, probation, and parole are included.