The first three sites are general sites for issues. You will have to use your search words to find information for your topic. These are great sites!

Controversial Issues: Town Hall
This a great site for controversial issues from the viewpoint of the conservative camp. You can search by keyword or open the daily updates of articles. There are also links to "The Right Pages" which will lead you to web pages of conservative viewpoints on controversial issues.

Controversial Issues: Multnomah County Library
This site has links to many controversial social issues with a balanced viewpoint, and more to the left. Use these links and the Town Hall sites to present a balanced argument in your research papers.

Controversial Issues: Public Agenda Online
Here is the greatest site for research social issues. There are lists of topics, which link to a page with links divided by understanding the issue (with lots of statistics) and public opinion. After linking to each site, there are more links with valuable information.

The following sites have information about prison issues.

Prison Activist Resource Center
This site is the source for progressive and radical information on prisons and the criminal prosecution system.

The Corrections Connections Network
A collection of quality links about prison links.

Links to Prison Issues
This site has links to interesting topics. Check it out to see if your topic is one.

What Jennifer Saw
Examining eye witness error in crimes and how DNA evidence is setting the innocent free

Bureau of Justice Statistics: Corrections Statistics
This page has lots of statistics and links to more stats and information.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
A big site with lots of information. Try the word "corrections" to search.

Corrections.com
Check out the directory in the blue on the left.

Stateline.org
Crime and Courts News