Summary: "Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Shawshank 2007Summary: The number of Americans who live behind bars has increased by 550 percent over the last 40 years. This has been the result of aggressive tough-on-crime legislation that had more harmful effects than lawmakers could have foreseen. Experts now see the problem but disagree on the solutions. Does incarceration limit crime, or does it simply feed into a cycle of problems that harm society and create...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhaven Publishing, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 365 MASJoyner, Chris
Summary: The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson' is the story of Clarence Henderson, a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn't commit, and the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. His first trial lasted only a day and featured a lackluster public defense. The book also tells the story of Homer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.134 JOYBeety, Valena E.
Summary: "From a former federal prosecutor turned champion of the wrongfully convicted, this powerful and profound book follows the stories of women reclaiming their freedom and creates a new blueprint for remaking our deeply flawed criminal legal system." -- Inside front jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 BEERezaian, Jason
Summary: In July 2014, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian was arrested by Iranian police, accused of spying for America. The charges were absurd. Rezaian's reporting was a mix of human interest stories and political analysis. He had even served as a guide for Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown. Initially, Rezaian thought the whole thing was a terrible misunderstanding, but soon realized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B REZAIAN REZSummary: A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for crimes they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DOWSummary: After 30 years in prison, Horcia discovers that her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was accused. This leads to her release and the transformative discovery of the man who framed her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMDawkins, Curtis
Summary: "In this stunning debut collection, Curtis Dawkins, an MFA graduate and convicted murderer serving life without parole, takes us inside the worlds of prison and prisoners with stories that dazzle with their humor and insight, even as they describe a harsh and barren existence. In Curtis Dawkins's first short story collection, he offers a window into prison life through the eyes of his narrators...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAWKhan-Cullors, Patrisse
Summary: "In AN ABOLITIONIST'S HANDBOOK, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the history of abolition, a reimagining of what reparations look like for Black lives and real-life anecdotes from Cullors AN ABOLITIONIST'S HANDBOOK offers a bold, innovative, and humanistic approach to how to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.6 CULLarson, Doran
Summary: "In Inside Knowledge incarcerated people step forth as the primary witnesses and documentarians of the American prison's historical and ongoing defeat of the four cardinal rationales for the legal caging of human beings: rehabilitations, deterrence, containment, and retribution"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 365 LARLempert, Lora Bex
Summary: How do women mothers, daughters, aunts, nieces and grandmothers -- make sense of judgment to a lifetime behind bars? In Women Doing Life, Lora Bex Lempert examines the carceral experiences of women serving life sentences, presenting a typology of the ways that life-sentenced women grow and self-actualize, resist prison definitions, reflect on and own their criminal acts, and ultimately create...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 LEMMichaels, Fern
Summary: Tessa Jamison couldn't have imagined anything worse than losing her beloved twin girls and husband; until she was convicted of their murder. For ten years, she has counted off the days in Florida's Correctional Center for Women, fully expecting to die behind bars. Fighting to prove her innocence holds little appeal now that her family's gone. But on one extraordinary day, her lawyers announce...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MICSummary: "In a collection of more than 150 original pieces created by members of POPS (Pain of the Prison System) the Club around the country, high-school students express their sorrow, confusion, anger, bewilderment, hopes, and dreams through poetry, essays, haiku, rap lyrics, drawings, paintings, photos, and collages. They tell stories that reflect different circumstances and experiences, but all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Out of the Woods Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 810.8 DRESummary: An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIGSummary: Three young men once lived a life of drugs, sex and freedom in Malaysia. Now one is in prison (Vince Vaughn) and will be executed in five days if a woman (Anne Heche) cannot persuade the other two to return to Malaysia to serve three years in prison.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PolyGram Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RETSummary: This summer, The Warden is back and the death toll at Superjail continues to rise at a ridiculous rate in the all-new Adult Swim DVD release. Includes all 10 episodes from the animated comedy's third season, complete with fist fights, baffling love triangles and psychedelic animation that will melt your face off. Series creators and executive producers also created a collection of bonus...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUPBaldwin, James
Summary: "Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BALBauer, Shane
Summary: "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. IIn 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 BAU1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Hayashida, Kyū
Summary: Zaha Sanko is the most wanted man in the universe. They say that if you claim his bones, you'll receive anything your heart desires. Having the entire galaxy trying to kill you all the time is kind of a drag when you're just fourteen years old, but Sanko has the mysterious power of darkness on his side, not to mention a talking spaceship and three horribly powerful space weirdos. Together,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAILashner, William
Summary: Middle schooler Elizabeth Webster has a new case for the Court of Uncommon Pleas: a fourth grader who says her sister's ghosts were stolen; the case leads her to the Ramsberger Institute of the Paranormal, run by Frederick Ramsberger and his grandmother (deceased), who are imprisoning and controlling ghosts, and who have a connection to Elizabeth's enemy, the fearsome demon Redwing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LASPatterson, James
Summary: The jailhouse lawyer: A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown--and ends up in jail herself. In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2021Pfaff, John F.
Summary: "Pfaff argues that existing accounts of the causes of mass incarceration are fundamentally misguided. The most widely accepted explanations--the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons--actually tell us much less than we like to think. Instead, Pfaff urges us to look at other factors, including a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 PFASummary: For Life is a fictional serialised legal and family drama inspired by the life of Isaac Wright, Jr. about a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn't commit. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to get back to the family he loves and reclaim the life that was stolen from him....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021