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Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Holding 6,000 prisoners and processing more than 100,000 people a year, Miami's mega jail is a transitory place for those awaiting sentencing, trial, and charges. Mega jails are a new phenomenon in America as the country struggles to process its growing criminal class; conditions are tough, dark ,and uncompromising. Depending on the nature of their crime, some prisoners are in and out in hours while others might be there for years. In Part 1, Louis...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Tori, Marvin, and Noah would rather be anywhere else than on the seventh grade class field trip to Raven Island prison...But when the three of them stumble upon a dead body in the woods, miss the last ferry back home, and then have to spend the night on Raven Island, they find that they need each other now more than ever"--
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
日本語
Description
"After being capture for attempting to assassinate the leader of the Hidden Lightning Village (the Raikage) and killing Jonin from the Hidden Mist and Rock Villages, Naruto is imprisoned in Hozūkijo, a criminal containment facility also known as Blood Prison. The warden of the facility, Mūi, uses the ultimate imprisonment jutsu to steal the power and abilities from it's prisoners. In the Blood Prison, something is targeting Naruto's life. The battle...
6) The Rig
Author
Series
The rig volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Will Drake has made a career of breaking out from high-security prisons. His talents have landed him at the Rig, a specialist juvenile holding facility in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. No one can escape from the Rig. No one except for Drake"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"When thirteen-year-old Valor is arrested, she could not be happier. Demidova's prison for criminal children is exactly where she wants to be. Valor's sister Sasha is already serving a life sentence for stealing from the royal family, and Valor is going to help her escape . . . from the inside"--
9) Stone
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Jack Mabry, a parole officer days away from retirement, is asked to review the case of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, in prison for arson. Now eligible for early release, Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man's decision with his wife Lucetta have profound and unexpected effects on them both.
Pub. Date
[2012], c2004
Language
English
Description
Drawing comparisons to the Tuskegee syphilis atrocities, this program describes experiments performed at Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison over a period of decades, during which inmates were subjected to frequently dangerous medical procedures without their informed consent. The video explores connections between major pharmaceutical companies, an indigent and semi-literate prison population, and an ambitious dermatologist named Dr. Albert Kligman...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
We all love the Shawshank Redemption; the story of a man who successfully escaped from a prison. But as they say, life is stranger than fiction and there have been events which can even put the movies to shame. It's amazing to see what prisoners go through and the creative plans they come up with to escape. This amazing book reveals the secrets of some of the most epic and ingenious escapes in history. Discover the adventures of those who were not...
13) Lockdown
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
15) Death sentence
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After his failed attempt to escape from Furnace Penitentiary, Alex struggles to survive the bloodstained laboratories beneath where monsters are manufactured, with a death sentence--or worse--hanging over his head.
16) Solitary
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, fourteen-year-old Alex Sawyer thinks that he has escaped the hellish Furnace Penitentiary, but instead he winds up in solitary confinement, where new horrors await him.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Cuphead and Mugman make reading fun in one of your favorite episodes of The Cuphead Show! retold in this Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader! The Cuphead Show! follows the adventures of two lovable brothers Cuphead and Mugman through their unique misadventures! And this time, they'll need each other more than ever, when Cuphead's misbehaving ways land them in jail, and they have concocted an outrageous escape plan! There's only one problem Mugman...
19) Kung fu killer
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Chinese
Description
A martial arts instructor from the police force gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Wendell Baker is a dreamer and schemer whose latest scam lands him in jail and alienates from his longtime girlfriend, best friend and even his dog. Eternally optimistic, Wendell makes the most of his time behind bars and vows to turn his life around. Upon release, he gets a job at a retirement hotel, befriending the residents and battling the evil nurse.
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