1. Introduction
2. The world of prisons
3. Prisons of the world
4. International Centre for Prison Studies
5. Women: the forgotten minority
6. The legacy of the Gulag
7. European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
8. Regional contrasts: Cambodia and Japan
9. Latin America: the iron fist or the New Model?
10. Barbados and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
11. Sub-Saharan Africa: an expensive colonial legacy
12. The Jericho Monitoring Mission
13. Towards ‘a better way’