IN ADDITION TO ARTICLES REVIEWING THE HISTORY OF IMPRISONMENT, THE INCARCERATIVE PROCESS, AND PRISON AND PRISONER STATISTICS, INTERVIEWS AND JOURNALISTIC CASE STUDIES PROVIDE A COLLECTIVE PICTURE OF THE CONDITIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF PRISON ROUTINE, INCLUDING LIFE ON A PRISON PLANTATION, IN INSTITUTIONS FOR MEN AND WOMEN, AND ON DEATH ROW. PROFILES ARE PRESENTED OF A WOMAN INMATE IN NORTH CAROLINA, THREE GENERATIONS OF ALABAMA PRISON GUARDS, AND TWO INMATES SENTENCED TO DIE, ONE IN FLORIDA AND THE OTHER IN ALABAMA. ALSO DISCUSSED ARE THE MOVEMENT TOWARD SCIENTIFIC PENOLOGY IN GEORGIA, PRISON PREACHERS, STATISTICS ON THE SCOPE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE U.S., THE FIGHT AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY, PRISONER AND PUBLIC ATTITUDES CONCERNING THE UTILITY OF EXECUTIONS, EXPERT'S VIEWS ON THE FUTURE OF INCARCERATION, AND THE VIABILITY OF SELECTED ALTERNATIVES TO INSTITUTIONALIZATION, SPECIFICALLY, EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO PENOLOGY IN HOLLAND, ENGLAND, AND DENMARK. ILLUSTRATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND TABULAR DATA ARE INCLUDED.