1. Crime and Criminals
   Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1902
   So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousands of poor people to jail. So long as men are allowed to monopolize all the earth, and compel others to live on such terms as these men see fit to make, then you are bound to get into jail.
2. A Duty of Honour
   Against Capital Punishment
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1918
   The existing penal system, which is permeated through and through with the brutal class spirit and barbarism of capitalism, must be extirpated root and branch.
3. In Russian and French Prisons
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1991
   Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails.
4. Oh! How--German is this Revolution!
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1918
   The existing penal system, breathing the spirit of brutal class-spirit and capitalist barbarism must be torn up by the roots. A fundamental system of prison-reform must be inaugurated immediately.
   
5. Penal transportation
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   The deporting of convicted criminals to a penal colony. Examples include transportation by France to Devil's Island and by the UK to its colonies in the Americas, from the 1610s through the American Revolution in the 1770s, and then to Australia between 1788 and 1868.
6. Too Few To Count
   Canadian Women in Conflict with the Law
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1987
   

Experts on Penal System in the Sources Directory

1. St. Leonard's Society of Canada