A diverse group of corrections professionals and criminal justice scholars employs a wide range of methods to describe cocorrections: case studies and interviews, a national assessment of coed prisons, questionnaire development, and survey analysis. The selections explore such major topics as the constitutionality of segregated prison systems, legal evaluation of coed settings, and key characteristics and program evaluation and research of coed prisons and their populations. A description of the policies, facility arrangements, inmates, staff, programs, and regulations regarding inmate physical contact is presented for 10 coed prisons, and a warden's experiences at the first coed adult Federal correctional institution are recounted, giving insight into the program's history, early implementation plans and problems, and success factors. Additional essays explain social relationships and programs at the coed Fort Worth, Tex., Federal Correctional Institution and the coed adult facility at Framingham, Mass. Styles of 'doing time' are contrasted for female and male inmates (felonious or preprison identities appear to be more important than sexual identity), and a scale to assess inmate and staff attitudes toward cocorrections is described. In addition, both programmatic and nonprogrammatic models of cocorrections are identified. The last four papers focus on women inmates in coed prison. They cover such subjects as sex-role differentiation in a cocorrectional setting and the equal rights amendment and its effect on coed prisons. Tables, chapter notes, and an index are supplied. An annotated bibliography provides approximately 55 references dated between 1972 and 1978. For separate articles, see NCJ 30881, 37407, 44904, 69088, 75933, and 75934.