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2) Stir crazy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1980
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two zany drifters are mistakenly sent to prison for a robbery they didn't commit. They must rely on their wits in order to survive a sadistic warden, a hulking mass-murderer and worst of all, the inter-prison rodeo.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One is more likely to go to prison in the USA than any other country in the world. Follow the stories of two innocent men who spent decades behind bars for murders they did not commit. With gripping testimony from inmates, guards, staff, cops, analysts, lawyers, and reformers, it exposes the failed "punishment model" and examines the dramatic programs proven to work.
Author
Publisher
Malpaso
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"La Casona es mucho más que una cárcel: es un microcosmos donde cada uno de los individuos que lo componen, desde el gobernador de la prisión hasta su mujer, pasando por los presos y los guardias, aceptan su suerte con resignación. La religión como salvación, el culto prohibido que todos profesan a una diosa vengativa que pretende destruir el mundo, y la peste, que matará por igual a ricos y pobres, une a estos personajes dispares de un rincón...
6) Escape plan
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a structural security authority finds himself locked in the world's most secret and secure prison, he must use his skills to escape.
7) Brute force
Series
Criterion collection volume 383
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Joe Collins, along with his fellow inmates, live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins's dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
8) Stone
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jack Mabry, a parole officer days away from retirement, is asked to review the case of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, in prison for arson. Now eligible for early release, Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man's decision with his wife Lucetta have profound and unexpected effects on them both.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
In this work, the author suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
Three little girls set off to school one sunny May morning. Within an hour, one of them is dead. Fifteen years later, Kitty lives in an institution. She can't speak, and has no memory of the accident that put her there, or her life before it. Nearby, Alison, a local artisan, struggles to make ends meet and to forget her past. When a job opens up in a prison as an art teacher, she takes it. Soon, though, she starts to receive alarming notes--followed...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. IIn 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt...
12) Eileen
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 22 cm
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Description
Arriving at an ancient stone prison, the Lady, an investigator who searches for information from prisoners's pasts that can save those awaiting execution, digs into the past of a killer named York, who can sense what others cannot, and unearths shocking secrets of her own.
14) The prisoner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (276 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A reinterpretation of the British 1960s cult hit series. A man, known as Six, finds himself inexplicably trapped in the Village with no memory of how he arrived. As he explores his environment, he discovers that his fellow inhabitants are identified by number instead of name, have no memory of any prior existence, and are under constant surveillance. Six is driven by the need to discover the truth behind The Village, the reason for his being there,...
15) The orange thief
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Living on the outskirts of society, an orange thief and some other country-wise ruffians steal fruit for sustenance and the sheer excitement of courting danger. After the thief ends up in jail, his life takes a turn when his bunkmate promises him a deal.
16) 48 hrs
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nolte is a rough-edged cop after two vicious cop-killers. He can't do it without the help of smooth and dapper Murphy, who is serving time for a half-million dollar robbery. Both pursue their separate goals--Nolte wants the villains and Murphy wants his money and some much-needed female companionship.
17) Cool hand Luke
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lucas Jackson is a man who refuses to be nailed down, conform to rules and regulations, or fit into society, and now, he's on a chain gang. He's a likable enough guy, always smiling, always ready for a little fun. He eats 50 hard-boiled eggs on a bet and collects all the money in the camp. He's more or less like the people he hangs around with, except he won't be pushed. He knows his own mind. This makes him the only prisoner with guts enough to talk...
18) Death rattle
Author
Formats
Description
"When Carmen Vega's boyfriend tries to kill her, she hands over all her savings to a smuggler and sets out from Tijuana in a small, leaky boat. Within sight of the California coast, the boat starts to sink, and its passengers have to be rescued by borderpatrol. Soon, Carmen turns up dead in a privately-operated Migrant Detention Center. Neither Nick Finn, the officer who saved Carmen from drowning, or his wife, human-rights lawyer Mona Jimenez, are...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Tori, Marvin, and Noah would rather be anywhere else than on the seventh grade class field trip to Raven Island prison. Tori would rather be on the soccer field, but her bad grades have benched her until further notice; Marvin would rather be at the first day of a film festival with his best friend, Kevin; and Noah isn't looking forward to having to make small talk with his classmates at this new school. But when the three of them stumble upon a dead...
20) Infidel
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
A contemporary Middle East thriller starring Jim Caviezel as an American kidnapped while attending a conference in Cairo, who ends up in prison in Iran on spying charges. His wife goes to Iran, determined to get him out.
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