- “Notes from the Editors, July-August 2001” by The Editors
- Review of the Month: “Prisons and Executions—the U.S. Model: A Historical Introduction” by The Editors
- “The “New” Criminal Justice System: State Repression from 1968 to 2001” by Christian Parenti
- “Lawyers, Jails, and the Law’s Fake Bargains” by Michael E. Tigar
- “Cruel but Not Unusual: The Punishment of Women in U.S. Prisons: An Interview with Marilyn Buck and Laura Whitehorn” by Susie Day; Marilyn Buck; Laura Whitehorn
- “Prisoners of War” by Mumia Abu-Jamal
- “Disablement, Prison, and Historical Segregation” by Jean Stewart, Marta Russell
- “Prisoners are Citizens” by Gregory Frederick
- “Reflections from this Side of the Razor Wire” by Dr. José Solís Jordán
- “The Death Penalty and Globalization in Nigeria, the United States, and Europe” by Silvia Federici, George Caffentzis
- “Teaching in Prison” by Michael D. Yates, Monica Frolander-Ulf
- “Prison Advocacy in a Time of Capital Disaccumulation” by Staughton Lynd, Alice Lynd