Summary: A millionaire is pegged for fraud and sentanced to time in prison. He turns to a criminal friend to help prepare him to go.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GeCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Get 2015Summary: "A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY RIOSummary: "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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Shawshank 2007Summary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLSummary: City banker Andy Dufresne arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947. Convicted of two brutal murders, he received a double life sentence. Within the confines of the prison, Andy forms an unlikely friendship with the prison "fixer" Red. He also becomes popular with the Warden and the prison's guards, as Andy is able to use his banking experience to help the corrupt officials amass personal fortunes....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FORSummary: Welcome to Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or OZ. As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glenn, Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or killer, whether you're in for a few years or in for life, you have a role to play. Once inside, choose your friends carefully.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OZSummary: The prison renovations following the fire are complete: the walls are cleaner, the cafeteria is bigger, and everything seems fresher ... from the outside that is. Inside the hearts and minds of the prisoners, Oz is just as dark and raw as it ever was.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OZSummary: The nanobots have populated the ship with its original crew. This is especially good news for Rimmer, who is now a lot less dead, but is extremely bad news for everyone else.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REDSummary: A former boxer turned drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the true story of a reform warden who risks his life to replace brutality and corruption with humanity and integrity in a state prison farm.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRUSummary: 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 SUPSummary: The daily activities of the prisoners and employees of Emerald City, an experimental unit of Oswald Maximum Security Prison.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OZSummary: General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court martialed and sent to a maximum security military prison, The Castle. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter, who runs his command with an iron fist, even killing prisoners when he deems it necessary. Irwin rallies his fellow convicts into a rag-tag army and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER LASSummary: A death row inmate in a Southern prison possesses the unusual gift of healing. A guard discovers the inmate's miraculous power and begins to question the man's guilt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Green 2007Summary: Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pittman is a schemer, a charmer and quite popular among his fellow convicts. Especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pittman. Each man will have the tables turned on him in a twisting, turning Wild West tale of brawls, chases, shootouts and wry wit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN THEForrest, Frederic
Summary: After being captured in Georgia, Union soldiers must learn to survive in a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A trio of British Muslims, known as the Tipton Three, were held in Guantánamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROASummary: Following the bloodbath that ended the prison riot, life is returning to far from normal for those who survive in the experimental unit of OZ. The warden struggles to do the right thing for his prisoners, facing adversity at every turn. Safety at OZ is not an option.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2002
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OZSummary: Miracles happen in unexpected places, even on death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. There John Coffey, a prisoner with supernatural powers, brings a sense of spirit and humanity to his guards and fellow inmates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GSummary: Set in the Libyan Desert during World War II, British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up "The Hill," a manmade instrument of torture--a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. They are in this military prison because they once defied, rebelled and talked back to their superiors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie HillSummary: Luis, a homosexual, and Valentin, a political prisoner are mismatched cell mates in a South American prison. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he's in. Eventually, the two men come to understand and respect one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Home Entertainment 2008