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1) Monster
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
2) Inside
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After serving fourteen years for a murder he didn't commit, Virgil Skinner still can't escape the gang he joined in order to survive. And he fears they'll go after his sister and her kids. The California Department of Corrections needs someone to infiltrate another gang, and Virgil agrees to do it in exchange for his sister's protection. But Chief Deputy Warden Peyton Adams is opposed. How will she protect him if things go bad? Besides, she's far...
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On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. The lieutenant's name was Louis Zamperini....
9) Fellside
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Jess Moulson is convicted of a murder she can't remember committing. Nothing is quite clear from the drug fuelled night when a blaze set in her apartment killed the little boy upstairs. When the media brands Jess a child killer, she starts to believe it herself. Now she's on her way to Fellside, the biggest, most formidable women's prison in Europe, standing in the bleak Yorkshire moors. Jess won't be alone in her prison cell. Lurking in the shadows...
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"The island of Alcatraz has always been a place that's fascinated visitors, from the Native American tribes who believed it was home to evil spirits to the Spanish explorers who discovered the island. In modern times, it was a federal prison for only 29 years, but now draws over a million visitors each year. Learn the history of America's most famous prison, from its initial construction as a fort in the 1800s, to its most famous residents such as...
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Criminal justice reform expert Sunny Schwartz contends that American prisons reinforce violent behavior and help create better criminals and discusses her San Francisco organization, the Resolve to Stop the Violence Project, which works to build a jail culture based on restorative justice and reduce recidivism.
14) The keeper
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From New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting novel featuring Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky on the hunt for clues about a woman who has gone missing.
On the evening before Thanksgiving, Hal Chase, a guard in the San Francisco County Jail, drives to the airport to pick up his step-brother for the weekend. When they return, Hal's wife, Katie, has disappeared without a clue.
By the time Dismas Hardy hears about this, Katie has been...
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