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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 295 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data-driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost-effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But many of these so-called reforms actually widen the net, weaving in new strands of punishment and control, and bringing new populations, who would not otherwise have been subject to imprisonment,...
42) Need for speed
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tobey Marshall, a mechanic who moonlights as an underground race-car driver, strives to take the top prize in America's most prominent street race in order to have his revenge against the ambitious ex-NASCAR champ who had him framed and sent to prison.
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
232 pages (large print) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After spending forty years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Ezekiel Cartwright has just one thing on his mind: he sets out to track down the men who set him up and then tell them, before he dies, that he has forgiven them. Cartwright finds his goal harder to achieve than he guessed, however; and before it's all over, he is compelled to take up a gun again and deal with the sons of the men who so cruelly wronged him all those years ago...
Author
Series
Ladies of liberty volume 2
Language
English
Description
Whisked away to America when her father is falsely accused of slave trading, Catherine Newbury disguises her identity and becomes a sought-after seamstress in Philadelphia, where she catches the eye of an architect who met her before she went into hiding.
45) Gasoline alley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Jayne, a reformed ex-con, is the prime suspect who will stop at nothing to prove his innocence. Homicide detectives Freeman and Vargas are close on his tail as Jimmy takes on his own investigation risking his life in the dark underbelly of Los Angeles.
47) Hard Stone
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
286 pages (large print) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When range detective Rance Dehner kills outlaw Tully Brooks, he finds that the case will not be closed so easily. Before dying, Brooks tells Dehner that he was involved in a fake bank robbery, and an innocent man has been arrested for the hold-up; his dying request is that Dehner investigate. The detective's compliance sends him to Hard Stone, Colorado, where he must deal with a high-stakes gambler, a mining engineer who's always quick to draw his...
48) Riot baby
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English
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""Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether."-Marlon James. Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella and Kev are brother and sister,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure, goals, and impact of our criminal justice system? Understanding Mass Incarceration offers the first comprehensive overview of the incarceration apparatus put in place by the world's largest jailer: the United States. Drawing on a growing body of academic and professional work, Kilgore describes in plain English...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiii, 337 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
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 Chase, a former World War II paratrooper and New England...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Clay West is back in town with amends to make and minds to change. The cowboy has spent four years in jail for a crime he did not commit, and he's determined to restore his good name. The former bad boy's first priority is convincing childhood friend Allie Nelson of his innocence. But she--more than anyone--has suffered in his absence. Allie can't admit how much she's missed Clay--and she can't betray her family by putting her trust in him. She vows...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Adolf Hitler spent 1924 away from society and surrounded by co-conspirators of the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Behind bars in a prison near Munich, Hitler passed the year with deep reading and intensive writing, a year of slowly walking gravel paths while working feverishly on his book Mein Kampf. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would appropriate Germany's historical traditions...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
161 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In May of 1976, twenty-four-year-old Carol Menaker was impaneled with eleven others on a jury in the trial of Freddy Burton, a young Black prison inmate charged with the grisly murders of two white wardens inside Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. After being sequestered for twenty-one days, the jury voted to convict Mr. Burton, who was then sentenced to life in prison without parole. For more than forty years, Menaker did what she could to put the...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Violence, drug material, language, some sexuality and thematic elements.
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there...
57) Little Dorrit
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English
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Of the complex, richly rewarding masterworks he wrote in the last decade of his life, Little Dorrit is the book in which Charles Dickens most fully unleashed his indignation at the fallen state of mid-Victorian society. Crammed with persons and incidents in whose recreation nothing is accidental or spurious, containing, in its picture of the Circumlocution Office, the most witheringly exact satire of a bureaucracy we possess, Little Dorrit is a stunning...
58) Life after death
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
399 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of murdering three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas, eighteen-year-old Echols, deemed the "ringleader" of the West Memphis Three, was sentenced to death. Then in August 2011 the WMT were released. In these pages, Echols describes the terrors he experienced every day and his outrage toward the American justice system, and offers a firsthand account of living on Death Row in heartbreaking, agonizing detail.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Delvin Walker is just a boy when his mother flees their home in the Red Row section of Chattanooga, accused of killing a white man. Taken in by Cornelius Oliver, proprietor of the town's leading Negro funeral home, he discovers the art of caring for the aggrieved, the promise of transcendence in the written word, and a rare peace in a hostile world. Yet tragedy visits them near daily, and after a series of devastating events--a lynching, a church...
Author
Series
Rogues and remarkable women volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune--and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child--until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has perils of its own. Especially when Patience discovers his...
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