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1) Eileen
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
Publisher
FUNimation
Pub. Date
2010
Formats
Description
It looked like it would be a normal day for Ganta and his classmates - they were preparing to go on a field trip to a prison amusement park called Deadman Wonderland, where convicts perform dangerous acts for onlookers' amusement. However, Ganta's life is quickly turned upside down when his class gets massacred by a mysterious man in red. Framed for the incident and sentenced to death, Ganta is sent to the very jail he was supposed to visit. But Ganta's...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Lucas Jackson is a man who refuses to be nailed down, conform to rules and regulations, or fit into society, and now, he's on a chain gang. He's a likable enough guy, always smiling, always ready for a little fun. He eats 50 hard-boiled eggs on a bet and collects all the money in the camp. He's more or less like the people he hangs around with, except he won't be pushed. He knows his own mind. This makes him the only prisoner with guts enough to talk...
5) The purge
Pub. Date
2013
Formats
Description
In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons, the governement has sanctioned an annual twelve-hour period in which any and all criminal activity, including murder, becomes legal. On that night, plagued by violence and criminal activity, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking.
6) Stir crazy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1980
Description
Two zany drifters are mistakenly sent to prison for a robbery they didn't commit. They must rely on their wits in order to survive a sadistic warden, a hulking mass-murderer and worst of all, the inter-prison rodeo.
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Formats
Description
"Three little girls set off to school one sunny morning. Within an hour, one of them is dead. Fifteen years later, Kitty can't speak and has no memory of the accident that's to blame. She lives in an institution, unlikely ever to leave. But that doesn't keep her from being frightened when she encounters an eerily familiar face. Art teacher Alison looks fine on the surface. But the surface is a lie. She's struggling to make ends meet and to forget...
10) Infidel
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
An American man is kidnapped while attending a religious conference in Cairo, then ends up in prison in Iran on spying charges. His wife goes to Iran, determined to get him out.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for 9 dollars an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to...
12) The running man
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Formats
Description
Los Angeles in the year 2017 has become a police state in the wake of the global economy's total collapse. In 2019 The Running Man is the top-rated TV show, where condemned criminals are given a chance for freedom by running through a gauntlet of heavily armed killers known as Stalkers. Ben Richards an ex-cop wrongly convicted of the massacre of unarmed civilians must try and survive the Stalkers.
Author
Series
Description
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 Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in ... for six months out...
14) Fellside
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Confronting the possibility that she might be forced to spend the rest of her life in a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, Jess Moulson discovers that the prison is haunted by the ghost of a little boy who imparts a chilling message.
On a heroin bender, Jess Moulson set fire to her apartment complex. A ten-year-old boy died in the fire. Sentenced to spend the rest of her life in Fellside, a maximum security prison on the...
15) The green mile
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2000
Description
In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"The next new novel from critically acclaimed author, Shirley Rousseau Murphy. While in prison Morgan makes fast friends with an old con named Lee Fontana and together they plan an elaborate escape in an attempt to clear Morgan's name for good, if they can outsmart the Devil one more time.."--
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Hardened by the abuses of her family, Clea packs up her kids and drives to the clapboard house of her childhood guardian, a woman with whom she has shared an abiding bond that is tested by Clea's exploration of her painful past as part of an effort to understand the elusive nature of happiness.
18) Backtrace
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
After suffering a brain injury from a bank heist gone wrong, Macdonald develops amnesia and is put into a prison psychiatric ward. Following his seventh year of evaluation, he is coerced by an inmate and a ward doctor to break out of prison and injected with a serum that forces him to relive the life he₂s forgotten. Macdonald must now elude a local detective, a tough FBI agent, and the drug₂s dangerous side effects in order to recover the stolen...
20) Noble warrior
Author
Publisher
Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Mixed martial arts phenom McCutcheon Daniels is recruited to help the FBI but then he is disavowed by the government and abandoned in one of America's most notorious prisons"--
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