Ross, Jeffrey Ian
Summary: Can the common criminal get a fresh start? A resource for former convicts and their families post-incarceration. The United States has the largest criminal justice system in the world, with currently over 7 million adults and juveniles in jail, prison, or community custody. Because they spend enough time in prison to disrupt their connections to their families and their communities, they are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 ROSPoor, Nigel
Summary: "From the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast comes this illuminating view of prison life, as told by presently and formerly incarcerated people. The United States locks up more people per capita than any other nation in the world--600,000 each year and 2.3 million in total. The acclaimed podcast Ear Hustle, named after the prison term for eavesdropping,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 POOLarson, 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 LARSmith, Mychal Denzel
Summary: "We are better than this" has been the rallying cry since Donald Trump was elected. But as New York Times-bestselling author Mychal Denzel Smith shows, Americans are too comfortable imagining our greatness. We like to believe in the rightness of our path and the inevitability of choosing our better angels. But historically, we've only come close to living up to the ideals we profess after we've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 SMIHedges, Chris
Summary: "Chris Hedges's powerful memoir of his year of teaching inmates in a maximum-security New Jersey prison takes readers into the lives of men who were all but destined to become incarcerated because of their impoverished and dangerous childhoods and shows why criminal justice reform is so essential"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.6 HEDSummary: The former NFL star turned social activist presents 30 essays from political prisoners, grassroots organizers and scholars such as Angela Davis and Dereck Purnell that focus on the police and incarceration abolition movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaepernick Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.6 ABOKeplinger, Kody
Summary: Even though Pamela Isley spends most of her time caring for a few small plants and does not trust other people, when cute goth girl Alice Oh comes into her life she starts to open up, but the dark secrets from home could destroy the one person who ever cared about Pamela, or as her mom called her, Ivy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 POIKhan-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 CULSummary: Survivors, observers and expert government officials recount the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility, when a violent five-day standoff between mostly black and latino inmates and law enforcement took place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ATTSummary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILYomtov, Nelson
Summary: "Story of men who tunneled to escape a German prisoner-of-war camp. Learn about the planners, task leaders, and key players of the escape from Stalag Luft III"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 YOMLaw, Victoria
Summary: "Utilizing narrative, statistics and history, this book identifies and dispels 21 popularly-held myths about mass incarceration"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 LAWEngle, Margarita
Summary: "Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardín secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracán derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados...Soleida huye sola a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH ENGSummary: The program traces how decisions made in Washington, D.C. in the immediate aftermath of September 11th led to a robust interrogation policy that laid the groundwork for prisoner abuse in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and Iraq. The program provides the context for understanding how the rules were confused, how lines of authority were blurred, and what happens when the authorization of "coercive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TORSummary: It started as photographs taken by soldiers of the abuse and torture prisoners were suffering in Abu Ghraib prison, and turned into a media frenzy full of scandal and cover-ups. One of the most notorious moments in recent U.S. military history is examined, through interviews with participants and dramatic reenactments of events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STASummary: Seventeen teenage lawbreakers spend a day inside Rahway State Prison (later East Jersey State Prison) with some of New Jersey's most dangerous criminals. A selected group of convicts ("The Lifers") give the youth an in-your-face, no-holds-barred account about life in prison, in hopes of "scaring them straight". Twenty years later, filmmaker Arnold Shapiro catches up with both the kids and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SCAProctor, Jenny
Summary: "Perry Hawthorne is my boss. Only my boss. And I do NOT have a crush. When one of THE Hawthorne brothers -- known by their chiseled jawlines and their family-run farm and event center -- hires me to be his virtual assistant, I do everything I can to keep him firmly in the work zone. His grumpy demeanor helps. His smoking hot profile picture does not. But even if I do have a crush (a very tiny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction ProctorHines, Debbie
Summary: "An examination of the historical and present racial inequities of the prosecutorial system and a blueprint for transforming the system to one of fairness and justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.089 HINFox, Margalit
Summary: "Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXSummary: One is more likely to go to prison in the USA than any other country in the world. Follow the stories of two innocent men who spent decades behind bars for murders they did not commit. With gripping testimony from inmates, guards, staff, cops, analysts, lawyers, and reformers, it exposes the failed "punishment model" and examines the dramatic programs proven to work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SURSummary: An in-depth look at the notorious 2015 escape from Clinton Correctional Facility, New York State's largest maximum security prison. The film gives a voice to current corrections officers whose lives have been impacted by the fallout and cannot speak to media, per state law. Including interviews with retired officers, state officials, and local law enforcement, the film explores circumstances...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WEGrey, Zane
Summary: When a black-hearted hide stealer kidnapped his girl and avenging Native Americans scalped his boss, buffalo hunter Tom Doan rides out on the prairies to deliver his own justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter J. Black 1953
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREMax, D. T. (Daniel T.)
Summary: Explores prions, enigmatic brain proteins, and their influence on human life, examining the case of an Italian family victimized for two centuries by a fatal familial insomnia, and the links between prions and various brain maladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006