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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Old home movies, newsreels and a prison diary are interwoven to link personal and public history in this assessment of human rights abuses in Guinea-Conakry. Allah Tantou is the first African film to confront the immense personal and political costs of the widespread human rights abuses on the continent. It follows filmmaker David Achkar's search for his father, his father's search for himself inside a Guinean prison and Africa's search for a new...
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English
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When a federal penitentiary, 'Hellhole,' was built in Yuma, the native Quechans discovered a way in which they could succeed in the world of the white man; they put their uncanny tracking abilities to use catching and returning prison fugitives. Immune to the searing heat, cunning, and tenacious, the Indians moved like wraiths pursuing dangerous criminals.
Of all the Quechans, perhaps the greatest tracker was Ho-Nas Good. He was tall and powerfully...
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 online resource
Language
English
Description
In Search of Safety takes a close look at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women's prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantages are at the root of prison conflict and violence and mirror the women's pathways to prison. Women must negotiate these inequities by developing forms of prison capital-social, human, cultural, emotional, and economic-to ensure their safety while inside. The authors...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
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Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Language
English
Description
"As the United States engaged in a bloody campaign to pacify its newly-won Philippines territory, a secret American mission went terribly wrong, resulting in a prisoner-of-war incident that foreshadowed World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. What happened next was an epic struggle for survival, a test of the human will to live, and ultimately, a crucible for heroes. Their captivity and the torturous expedition sent to the American POWs' rescue, recalled...
27) Eileen
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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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.
28) Life signs
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Series
Firefly novels volume 5
Language
English
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"Months after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the crew finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: she is dying of a terminal illness. It is Kiehl's Myeloma, a form of cancer that's supposedly incurable, and Inara has very little time left. Through their shock and despair, rumors of a cure reach the crew. Expert Esau Weng is said to have developed a means to treat Inara's condition, but he has been disgraced and incarcerated for life on a notorious...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 130 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Adapted from the novel by Bruno Apitz and filmed on location at Buchenwald concentration camp, this film features many who were themselves prisoners of the Nazis, as well as younger actor Armin Mueller-Stahl. Based on a true story of inmates who risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp. Jankowski, a Polish prisoner from Auschwitz, arrives at the Buchenwald concentration camp carrying a suitcase. Inside...
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Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Tells the true story of a British soldier who was held in a POW labor camp in the summer of 1944 and willingly smuggled himself into the Buna-Monowitz concentration camp--known as Auschwitz III--to witness firsthand the cruelty there.
32) End of story
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English
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A young woman who hopes to give up her bartending job to become a successful writer, Ivy Seidel falls under the spell of Vance Harrow, convicted for a terrible crime, while teaching writing to inmates at a maximum security prison.
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Series
Asian saga volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Japanese POW camp Changi, Singapore: hell on earth for the soldiers contained within its barbed wire walls. Officers and enlisted men, all prisoners together, yet the old hierarchies and rivalries survive. An American corporal, known as the King, has used his personality and wiles to facilitate trading with guards and locals to get needed food, supplies, even information into the camp. The imprisoned upper-class officers have never had to do things...
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English
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"The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising...
35) #MurderTrending
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Series
#MurderTrending volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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Falsely accused of murdering her stepsister, seventeen-year-old Dee fights to survive paid assassins on Alcatraz 2.0, the most popular prison on social media.
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Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (chiefly color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
The Aryan race warrior. A Mexican drug lord. A Korean hit man. A career stick-up man. The wrong guy at the wrong place at the wrong time. The puke Cho-mo-kiddy-toucher. And you! This ain|́|t the Breakfast Club and these are ain|́|t your new friends. Welcome to the Protective Housing Unit (PHU), home to some of world|́|s worst criminals|́|many of whom so reviled they must not only be shielded from the American public, but the general prison population....
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (chiefly color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
The Aryan race warrior. A Mexican drug lord. A Korean hit man. A career stick-up man. The wrong guy at the wrong place at the wrong time. The puke Cho-mo-kiddy-toucher. And you! This ain|́|t the Breakfast Club and these are ain|́|t your new friends. Welcome to the Protective Housing Unit (PHU), home to some of world|́|s worst criminals|́|many of whom so reviled they must not only be shielded from the American public, but the general prison population....
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (chiefly color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
The Aryan race warrior. A Mexican drug lord. A Korean hit man. A career stick-up man. The wrong guy at the wrong place at the wrong time. The puke Cho-mo-kiddy-toucher. And you! This ain|́|t the Breakfast Club and these are ain|́|t your new friends. Welcome to the Protective Housing Unit (PHU), home to some of world|́|s worst criminals|́|many of whom so reviled they must not only be shielded from the American public, but the general prison population....
40) Prisoner 88
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
In 1885, ten-year-old Jake is sent to prison for killing a man who threatened his father, and struggles to survive the harsh realities of prison life in the Idaho Territory.
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