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62) Wrinkles
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Martin Sheen (The West Wing), Matthew Modine (The Dark Knight Rises), and George Coe (Archer) lead a cast of eccentric characters who rebel against authority in this wonderfully animated and poignant comedy for adults.. Using hand-drawn animation, Wrinkles moves freely between the inmates’ daily routines and their more colorful, dementia-induced fantasies, leaving plenty of room for both tears and laughter as it pokes pointed fun at society’s...
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Clink volume 3
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English
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Full Moon Friday sees the inmates granted more leniency than usual. Elsewhere, finding herself in trouble with Sherri, Laura sinks into depression and not Chloe can lift her spirits.
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A crime reporter's thrilling account of the infamous 2015 prison break, manhunt, and capture based on interviews with one of the inmates who pulled it off.
On June 6, 2015, inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility, New York State's largest maximum-security prison. The media was instantly obsessed with the story: Aided by a prison seamstress, who smuggled hacksaw blades, chisels, and drill bits inside the facility...
65) Shrink Rap
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English
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Prison.It isn't a place former psychologist Ann Talarico ever expected to find herself. But if her work as a therapist has taught her anything, it is that you have to make the best of any situation. Facing a life sentence for a crime she didn't commit, Ann is determined not to let the concrete walls stop her from making a difference.It starts with the inmates.One by one, she works to help them overcome problems that brought them to Northampton State...
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"What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder? Based on the massively successful Netflix documentary series of the same name, this book features ten of the most compelling cases from the series and is full of exclusive never-seen-before material. In each of the cases the inmate speaks openly about themselves and reflects on their life and their crimes. To gain a complete picture of the impact of the murders, the authors spoke to...
67) Oliver Twist
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English
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From the Publisher: Oliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which pauper children were exposed in the Victorian England. With this novel, Dickens did not merely write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality. He created a moral fable about the survival of good, a romance, and a gripping story in which...
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English
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A missing inmate. There's something about the inmate that has raised red flags within several clandestine branches of government, and has drawn the attention of two assassins to him. Caught between government agents and assassins, an investigative reporter can't help but wonder, why all the attention to a missing inmate?
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Wire in the Blood volume 3
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English
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A man is found beaten, strangled, and shot, but which action caused his death? Meanwhile, Tony is called to reevaluate Michael Bryant, a convicted cannibal Tony helped put away, after the inmate claims to have undergone a religious conversion.
70) Mind Games
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English
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The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Identity presents a suspenseful new novel of tragedy and trauma, love and family, and the evil that awaits.
As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her
71) Coldwater
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English
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A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.
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60 Days In volume 5
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English
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While Stephanie chooses to use drugs to bond with her fellow inmates, Jaclin finds acceptance by creating her own jail clothing line, bringing pink flare and positivity to the inmates of I-Pod, but causing heated confrontations with the officers.
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Wire in the Blood volume 2
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English
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When Tony responds to a violent incident at a mental hospital, he believes the inmate was triggered by news of a prostitute's brutal murder. With more victims and no leads, DC Paula McIntyre volunteers to go undercover in a sting operation.
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English
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An ex-con struggles to adjust to life outside prison walls After eight years spent locked up, Max has gotten very good at being a prisoner. He knows the guards, the inmates, and how to survive. But the parole board has decided that he has sufficiently reformed, and it's time for him to say goodbye. When Max reaches the outside world, he finds that freedom doesn't make anything easier. Based on his own experiences in prison, Edward Bunker first...
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FBI Critical Incident volume 3
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English
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The true story of how illegal immigrants held for criminal offenses took over a local jail block in a small Louisiana Parish for weeks as local officials, FBI negotiators and Hostage Rescue Teams combined to capture the inmates and rescue the hostages.
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English
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Aleksandr Petrovich lives through a spiritual re-awakening that culminates with his release from the prison camp. The narrator has been sentenced to penalty deportation to Siberia and ten years of hard labour for murdering his wife. Dostoyevsky skillfully portrays the inmates of the prison with sympathy for their plight, and admiration for their energy, ingenuity and talent.
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Welcome to the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward, a maximum-security hospital and inpatient psychiatric unit for the inmates of the New York City jail system, with its hub on Rikers Island. It is a world of heartbreak, violence, and pain, where severely ill men are often lost in a tangle of courts, jails, and bureaucracy. It is also a place of challenges, redemption, and surprising joy, where tough, hardworking doctors and staff fight to care...
79) Under-Earth
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"'Under-Earth' takes place in a subterranean landfill, hollowed out to serve as a massive improvised prison. Sunken into the trash and debris of the past -- gameboys, iphones, coffee cups, old cars -- we follow two parallel stories. In the first, a new arrival struggles to adapt to the everyday violence, physical labour, and poverty of the prison city. Overwhelmed and alone, he finds a connection with a fellow inmate through an old, beat-up novel....
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