Problems of long-term imprisonment (Anthony Bottoms; Roy Light). Part I: General Issues; The control review committee report (A. J. Pearson; Andrew Rutherford; S.G. Norris); Control strategies for problem prisoners in American penal systems (David A. Ward); The concept of social and its relevance to the prisons debate (Peter Young); New generation prisons - new generation prisons, the prison building programme, and the future of the dispersal policy (Roy D. King); New directions in prison design (Terence C. Platt); The telephone rings - long-term imprisonment (Mike Fitzgerald); Civil liberties, the law and the long-term prisoner (Rod Morgan; Genevra Richardson). The unwanted effects of long-term imprisonment (Nigel Walker); The American Federal system: control and classification (Gilbert Ingram); Implications for 'New generation' prisons of existing psychological research into prison design and use (David Canter); The Scottish experience with small units (Andrew G. Coyle); Barlinnie special unit - an insider's view (Peter B. Whatmore); Control problems in dispersals (Michael Jenkins); Indentifying control-problem prisoners in dispersal prisons (Mark williams; David Longley); Special unit, 'C' wing, HMP Parkhurst (Susan Evershed); The probation officer and long-term prisoners (John Coker).