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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...
2) The jackal
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward comes the start of a captivating new Black Dagger Brotherhood spin-off series set in an underground prison where only murderous and thieving creatures dwell.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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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"--
5) The Rig
Author
Series
The rig volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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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"--
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...
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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley....
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around and fast. The Positron...
12) 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...
16) 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.
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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