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Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jimmy Rose is a career criminal newly free after twelve years in prison. Greeted with cold disdain from his wife, Jackie, Jimmy decides to stick to the terms of his parole: hold down a job and stay right in the eyes of the law. But when he finds out that his beloved granddaughter, Ellie, ran away and is now a drug addict, Jimmy will risk everything to bring her home.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Jodi McCarty is seventeen when she's sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She's released eighteen years later and finds herself reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she will meet and fall in love with Miranda, a troubled young mother living in a motel room with her...
3) The upside
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Description
A recently paroled ex-convict, Dell, strikes up an unusual and unlikely friendship with a quadriplegic billionaire, Philip Lacasse, in this 'funny and warm-hearted buddy comedy.' From worlds apart, Dell and Philip form an unlikely bond, bridging their differences and gaining invaluable wisdom in the process, giving each man a renewed sense of passion for all of life's possibilities.
4) True blue
Author
Description
A former Washington D.C. police cop out to prove herself and a young lawyer from a prestigious law firm meet after he discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm. As they investigate the death, they start uncovering surprising secrets from both the private and public world of the nation's capital--and what began as a fairly routine homicide takes a terrifying and unexpected turn into something complex, diabolical, and possibly lethal.
5) The big exit
Author
Series
Hank Madden novels volume 2
Formats
Description
Fresh out of prison, Richie Forman tries to settle back into his life in the Bay Area. By day, he works at a law firm dedicated to freeing innocent men from prison. By night, he makes a living impersonating Frank Sinatra. But then his ex-best friend is found hacked to death in his garage, and Richie becomes the prime suspect. In a murder mystery with the intricacies of a microchip, David Carnoy weaves his characters like a master.|David Carnoy is...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Description
Polly McClusky is eleven years old - too old for the teddy bear she carries with her everywhere - when she is unexpectedly reunited with her father, Nate, fresh out of jail. He takes her from the front of her school into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of death. And he does it to save her life. Nate made dangerous enemies in prison: a gang called Aryan Steel has put out a bounty on his head, counting on its members on the outside...
7) Buffalo '66
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
C.I.A. agent, Billy Brown, brings his wife home to meet his absurdly dysfunctional family. Only Billy's not really in the C.I.A., and his "wife," Layla, is actually a young tap dancer he just kidnapped to impress his ridiculous and unloving parents. In reality, Billy's whole life is an empty lie. He's fresh out of prison and now on a deadly mission to hunt down and kill the Buffalo Bills kicker whose botched field goal he believes ruined his life....
Publisher
Virgil Films And Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After three years in prison, Enrique returns home to the Bronx to find the world he knew has changed. His wife, Angela, struggles to hide an emotional affair, and his teenage child, Michael, explores a sexual transformation well beyond Enrique's grasp and understanding. Can a father's fierce love for his family overcome his street-hardened ideas about manhood and end the vicious cycle controlling his life?
11) The con artist
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ex-con finds his plan to go straight foiled by a loan shark who manipulates him into taking on one last heist aided by a beautiful and calculating art dealer.
12) Les misérables
Author
Description
Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.
15) Faster
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A veteran cop and an egocentric hit man are on the trail of an ex-con who is determined to avenge the death of his brother, killed during a bank robbery years ago.
16) Wild Rose
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rose-Lynn Harlan is bursting with raw talent, charisma, and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mom Marion has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (633 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ray Donovan is the go-to guy who makes the problems of Los Angeles celebrities, superstar athletes, and business moguls disappear. This powerful family drama unfolds when his father is unexpectedly released from prison, setting off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.
Publisher
Distributed by Vision Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lee Ferguson is released from prison after serving a ten-year sentence. Looking to lead a simple life, he takes a job at the local grocery store in the small town where he was raised. After saving Katie from an assault, his life becomes anything but simple. A scheming coworker and a mysterious stranger cause Lee to suddenly become confronted with the choices he made long ago. Now, he must decide how far he is willing to go to seek redemption.
19) The Ardennes
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being released from prison, a man tries to head straight back into a life of crime and drugs while his brother and girlfriend choose to live clean lives.
20) Road dogs
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Gentleman/bank-robber Jack Foley is back in prison doing a thirty-year sentence after a week-long escape. Brought in by Karen Sisco, US marshall, who got her man after being abducted with the escapees, Jack and Karen have a thing for each other, and Karen arrests him only after a meaningful 'time'out' together. Jack is resigning himself to doing time, lots of it, and he seems to have a friendly and easy control over the hardened criminals he is imprisoned...
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