Publications

Through its publications, AJA lives up to its role as a leader in the field of American jails.

Exploring Jail Operations covers jail history, women's issues, suicide and mental health, medical problems, crowding, direct supervision jails, small jails, cultural diversity, technology, jail inspections, legal subjects, regionalization, State jail systems, training, and juveniles. 

Jail and Prison Legal Issues: An Administrator's Guide is designed to identify the general principles of legal issues that face corrections practitioners everyday and to discuss how the courts have applied those principles in different situations. It also provides information to help you make a legally sound and defensible decision as an administrator. An update is available here.

AJA's award-winning magazine American Jails has the distinction of being the only magazine geared solely to jail issues with articles covering both the American and foreign jail scenes.

Jail Rental List - Our jail rental list is an electronic version of our Who's Who in Jail Management- Jail Directory.  This is the best way to contact 3,100+ Jail throughout the United States.  You can rent the complete list or sort it by State, title, rated bed capacity, the year the facility was built, and more.