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Federal Correctional Institution (Danbury, Conn.) Drama Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, Conn. Female friendship Fiction Reformatories for women Reformatories for women Connecticut Danbury Reformatories for women Connecticut Danbury Drama Reformatories for women Fiction Women prisoners Women prisoners Connecticut Danbury Women prisoners Connecticut Danbury DramaRyan, Hugh
Summary: "The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates--Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.43 RYASummary: A new regime has arrived at Litchfield and with it comes new business interests, spiritual movements, and parental problems that turn life behind bars upside down and ignite power struggles among Litchfield's residents and guards.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ORASummary: Picking up one week after the emergency response team stormed Litchfield Penitentiary, the ladies of Litch have been torn apart, literally and figuratively, as they enter a new facility. Now newbies starting at the bottom, they must navigate new rules and power dynamics while getting hazed by inmates and tortured by guards.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ORASummary: In Ireland in the 1960s, four women were sent to the Magdalene Laundries, an institution for "fallen" women, where they will atone for their sins through a regimented life of work and prayer. They all had to work in the laundry, where the strict nuns would break everyone's wills through sadistic punishment. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAGBostwick, Marie
Summary: Hope Carpenter finds new purpose in a new phase of life when her husband's forced retirement strains both their savings and their marriage. Seeking inspiration and a financial boost, Hope gets a job teaching crafts to inmates at a local women's prison with surprising results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BOSKerman, Piper.
Summary: With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424--one of the millions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 KERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KERMAN KERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem KermanSummary: In the show's final season, a recently paroled Piper tries to get back on her feet while life in Litchfield, as corrupt as ever, goes on without her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ORAAlexander, V. S.
Summary: When her beauty provokes a lustful revelation from a young priest, sixteen-year-old Teagan is sent to one of Dublin's Magdalen Laundries for fallen women, where she befriends two other girls who help her endure the harsh captivity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEKerman, Piper.
Summary: "With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years ago. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424-- one of the millions of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 365.43 KERSummary: Mitra, in prison for killing her violent stepfather, confronts new warden Tahereh on the eve of a riot, fearlessly challenging her dogmatic views - which, over time, begin to change. This movie has been banned in Iran.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOMSummary: Follows Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ORAPochoda, Ivy
Summary: "A rage-brimmed, razor-sharp, feminist neo-western about two women who meet in an LA prison and the cat-and-mouse game that follows their release"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POCSummary: A fierce and funny series that follows Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) when a crime she committed in her past sends her to an all-women's prison with an unforgettable and irreverent group of fellow inmates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ORAKibler, Julie
Summary: In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection of Erring Girls is an unprecedented beacon of hope for young women consigned to the dangerous poverty of the streets by birth, circumstance, or personal tragedy. Built in 1903 on the dusty outskirts of Arlington, a remote dot between Dallas and Fort Worth's red-light districts, the progressive home bucks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Fiction Kibler 2019Moore, Susanna.
Summary: The story of Helen, an inmate at Sloatsburg, and the horrible crime that led to her life sentence at the prison, is told through the voices of Helen herself; Dr. Louise Forrest, head of mental services at the prison; and Ike Bradshaw, a young correctionsofficer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOSchilling, Taylor
Summary: A woman is incarcerated for fifteen months in a federal prison after being convicted of drug trafficking and must learn to adapt to her new prison life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2018