Bibliography

Crimes of punishment : America’s culture of violence / Theodore L. Dorpat.
New York : Algora Pub., c2007.

A psychoanalytic perspective on the effects of punishment, the cycle of violence, limitations of prison reform, and a comparison of crimes of the poor and crimes of the rich.

Inequality : social class and its consequences / edited by D. Stanley Eitzen and Janis E. Johnston.

Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, c2007

Social condtions since the 1980s
Poverty and Crime
Social Stratification in America

Prison profiteers : who makes money from mass incarceration / edited by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright.
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2007.

The autobiography of Malcolm X / with the assistance of Alex Haley ; foreword by Attallah Shabazz ; introduction by M.S. Handler ; epilogue by Alex Haley ; afterword by Ossie Davis. published New York : Ballantine Books, c1999

There is a great and important part in this autobiography where Malcolm X touches upon his experience in prison and gives a lot of insight of the nature of imprisonment in America.

http://www.dpscs.state.md.us/locations/mcac.shtml

Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center website. This is the Prison which I am focusing on. It is Baltimore's SuperMax prison.