In 1811,a Connecticut judge sentenced an 87-year-old slave, to life imprisonment for attempting to poison his master. Prince spent the next sixteen years in Connecticut's notorious Newgate Prison, America's first state prison.

This title offers the reader historical narrative along with lists of prisoners during an early American period.

Arguably one of the most poignant books ever written on the injustice of our “Justice System” and what is being done to correct it.

There are more and more elderly offenders entering the criminal justice system or growing old behind bars. This important book reviews the current state of our prisons and the possibility of an elderly justice system.

In recent years, evidence-based practices have had a positive impact on the corrections field and it is shown that many programs which emphasize motivation and behavior change over punishment is more successful in reducing crime.

This is a careful account of TDC's fearful past as a plantation system, its tumultuous litigated reform, and its subsequent efforts to balance prisoner rights and prison order.