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From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a...
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The Shawshank Redemption is the story of a man (Tim Robbins) condemned to life in prison for a murder that he did not commit. His resourcefulness and ingenuity inspires other prisoners and lead to his eventual ingenious escape. It is an inspirational film that showcases the power of the human spirit to triumph over the most horrific adversitiesThe Shawshank Redemption is both engaging and ultimately uplifting. Much credit for this goes to Robbins...
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"A gritty, raw, and engrossing voice."—Publishers Weekly
A memoir unlike any other that explores addiction, crime, and redemption.
The true story of one correctional officer's life behind bars—the ones at work and the ones she built herself.
I was a bad mother,
a bad daughter,
a bad wife, a bad friend.
Boozed out and tired,
with no dreams
and no future.
But
...4) Fucking A
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Samuel French, Inc
Pub. Date
20220328
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English
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Fucking A is an otherworldly tale involving a noble mother, her wayward son and others. Hester Smith, the revered and reviled local abortionist, hatches a plan to buy her jailed son’s freedom—and nothing will deter Hester from her quest. In this violent and wild-eyed blend of story and song, which harkens to Brechtian and Jacobean structure, Hester’s branded letter A becomes a provocative emblem of vengeance, violence and sacrifice. --
5) On the job
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2014
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Tagalog
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When a prominent drug dealer is murdered, Sergeant Acosta (Joey Marquez) and Federal agent Francis (Piolo Pascual) lead the investigation, but the trail goes immediately cold. What they discover is a conspiracy of massive scale. The killers (Joel Torre and Gerald Anderson) are inmates, temporarily released from jail as assassins before returning to incarceration.
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Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Convicted felons at Kentucky's Luther Luckett Correctional Complex rehearse for the Shakespearean production, The Tempest, as part of the Shakespeare Behind Bars Program. The play's underlying theme of forgiveness parallels themes of transformation and redemption in the lives of the prisoners.
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Barrington Public Library
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Carrie: A high school wallflower with telekinetic powers terrorizes her classmates.
Misery: After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
The Shawshank Redemption: Two convicts, one white and one black, never give up the dream of freedom, and together they turn hope and friendship into an uplifting bond no prison can ever take away.
The Shining: Jack Torrance is a writer...
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