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Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 44
Description
"P.I. Spenser, knight-errant of the Back Bay, returns in this stellar addition to the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts,...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, BK Currents Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
vii, 228 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"35,000 Americans are arrested every day, and the number of prisoners has increased 500% over the last three decades. Truthout Executive Director Maya Schenwar shows that incarceration actually doesn't deter crime, looks at its devastating effect on families and communities, and offers more humane and more effective alternatives"--
Publisher
Blue Underground
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (76 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Trevor (Roth) is a temperamental 16-year-old skinhead complete with a swastika etched into his forehead. Thrown back into the penal system after smashing open a shop window, he refuses help from his social worker and retreats so deeply into his own sense of hatred that he seems impossible to reach. Easily provoked and prone to screaming and irrational behavior, Trevor comes to represent a truly terrifying vision of things to come.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
29 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 31 cm.
Description
Examines the lives of young prisoners who were forever changed because of transportation, including the boy who became the first person hanged in Australia and the girl whose likeness is now on the nation's twenty-dollar note.
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