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English
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A compelling, often hilarious, and unfailingly compassionate portrait of life inside a woman's prison. Follows the author's incarceration for drug trafficking, during which she gained a unique perspective on the criminal justice system and met a varied community of women living under exceptional circumstances.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 102 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In House of whipcord, fashion model Ann-Marie (Penny Irving) is lured into a private reform school where she is punished for her sexually liberated behavior by a zealous warden (Barbara Markham). The warden and her doddering husband established this house of horrors to stifle the sexual revolution, imprisoning and killing those who offended their moral propriety. Only Ann-Marie's liberated roommate (Ann Michelle) can help her escape. This politically...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In a large barren room furnished only with communal bunkbeds, Anya meets her cellmates: five ordinary Russian women arrested on petty charges. They come from all strata and experiences of Russian society, and as they pass the long hours waiting to be released, they slowly build trust and companionship while sipping lukewarm tea from plastic cups and playing games. Above all, they talk: about politics, feminism, their families, their sexualities,...
Author
Series
Inspector Tom Reynolds novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1975, a baby just minutes old is taken from its devastated mother. In 2010, the gruesome corpse of a nun is found in a Dublin public park. Detective Inspector Tom Reynolds and his team are on the scene and he's convinced the murder is linked to historical events that took place in the infamous former Magdalene Laundries, institutions for "fallen women."
As Reynolds and his team follow the trail to an isolated convent, everything seems perfectly...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
New faces and old resentments make for a potentially volatile blend, especially now that Litchfield is a for-profit business. This season delves into the racial and economic tensions that run rampant in the halls of Litchfield. Overrun with new inmates and overseen by inexperienced guards, the prison undergoes an unprecedented culture war.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (783 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Not rated.
A new regime has arrived at Litchfield and with it comes new business interests, spiritual movements, and parental problems that turn life behind bars upside down and ignite power struggles among Litchfield's residents and guards.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The federal government can't touch Michael Scofield, so they're going after the woman he loves. When Sara is arrested for murder, only Michael can rescue her, and their unborn child, from an impenetrable women's prison. Michael must rely on his deadliest enemies to help attempt the most daring breakout ever.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (730 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 779 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A fierce and funny series that follows Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) when a crime she committed in her past sends her to an all-women's prison with an unforgettable and irreverent group of fellow inmates.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (679 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the standoff at the prison turns into a full-blown riot, the inmates take advantage of the confusion by conducting seances, holding prisoner auctions, and preening for the morning news. But with relationships tested and friendships starting to fray, will life at Litchfield ever return to normal?
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 783 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A new regime has arrived at Litchfield and with it comes new business interests, spiritual movements, and parental problems that turn life behind bars upside down and ignite power struggles among Litchfield's residents and guards.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
p2012
Edition
Unabridged
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (11 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years ago. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424-- one of the millions of women who disappear 'down the rabbit hole' of the American...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Ireland in the 1960s, four women were sent to the Magdalene sisterhood asylum because of 'sinful' behavior. They all had to work in the laundry, where the strict nuns would break everyone's wills through sadistic punishment. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 357 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Women's House of Detention, Greenwich Village's most forbidding and forgotten queer landmark, stood from 1929 to 1974, imprisoning tens of thousands from all over New York City. The little-known stories of the queer women and trans-masculine people incarcerated in this building present a uniquely queer argument for prison abolition. The "House of D" acted as a nexus, drawing queer women down to Greenwich Village from every corner of the city....
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