Examines how the Texas prison system has adapted to court-ordered reform. The book explores the impact of major organizational restructuring on post-reform prison management and operation in the era of "high-tech" information-processing systems.

This work covers the development of modern police and their history in the United Kingdom and the United States; the nationalization or centralization of the police function in the UK, the localization of police in the US and the police strikes in both countries in 1918-19 and their effects on the developing institutions. This work examines and explains the effects of the police strikes of 1918-1919 on the development and emergence of policing in both of these countries.