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Incorrigible [videorecording] : a film about Velma Demerson / by Lee, Karin,1960-film director.; McIntyre Media,film distributor.;
Gemini award winning filmmaker Karin Lee tells the heartbreaking and poignant story of Velma Demerson who was arrested under the Ontario Female Refuges Act (1897-1964) and incarcerated for falling in love with a Chinese man in 1938 at the age of 18 in Toronto, Canada. Pregnant and without legal counsel, Velma was sentenced to one year in prison where she was tortured by the prison's eugenicist doctor who attempted to abort her child. 60 years later Velma attempted to sue the Ontario provincial government for wrongful incarceration. She and paralegal activist Harry Kopyto worked to solve the puzzle of how to sue the government for a case which was past the limitation period. Velma was finally vindicated and won her case in 2003 at the age of 83. This is the story of an ordinary young woman who did nothing wrong, except to fall in love with a man of a different race. It is a story of how institutional racism ruined the lives of two young people in love and destroyed the possibility of their having a happy and healthy family. Most important, it is the inspirational story of a woman who fought back for decades to get justice and won. Velma never stopped trying to get justice for all the women arrested under the Female Refuges Act, and actively lobbied the government, until her death in 2019, to apologize to all women who were wrongly incarcerated. The message in this film to these women and their families is that "they did nothing wrong and it's not their fault."E.DVD.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Historical films.; Demerson, Velma, 1920-2019.; Interracial dating; Race discrimination; Racism; Women prisoners;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Shawshank redemption [videorecording (DVD)] by Darabont, Frank; Robbins, Tim,1958-; Freeman, Morgan,1937-; Gunton, Bob; King, Stephen,1947-Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank redemption.;
Director of photography, Roger Deakins ; production design, Terence Marsh ; editor, Richard Francis-Bruce ; music, Thomas Newman.Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows.A quiet banker sent to prison for murder learns to cope with prison life and develops a synergistic relationship with another lifer.CHV rating: 14A.NTSC 1.
Subjects: Prison films.; Feature films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;
© c1999., Warner Home Video,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Mandela : a film and historical companion : a major motion picture based on Nelson Mandela's bestselling autobiography Long walk to freedom / by Kathrada, A. M.(Ahmad M.),author.; Nicholson, William,author.;
Foreword by Ahmed Kathrada -- Producing Mandela by Anant Singh -- Directing Mandela by Justin Chadwick -- Designing Mandela by Johnny Breedt -- Introduction by William Nicholson -- Mandela: a film and historical companion -- Nelson Mandela timeline -- Principal cast, Mandela.
Subjects: Mandela, Nelson, 1918-; Mandela, Nelson, 1918-; Anti-apartheid activists; Anti-apartheid movements; Political prisoners; Presidents;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Marriott cell : an epic journey from Cairo's Scorpion Prison to freedom / by Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel,author.; Shaben, Carol,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The revealing, widely anticipated story by the internationally award-winning journalist is as riveting as a political thriller: it opens an astonishing window onto the closed world of geo-political power brokering as he takes us behind his headline-generating seizure and 438-day imprisonment in Cairo's notorious Scorpion Prison with leading terrorists; through the love story that made front-page news; to the profoundly personal drama of one man's fight for freedom, supported by Canadians across the country and media world-wide. With a foreword by international human rights lawyer, Amal Clooney. On the night of December 29, 2013, the Egyptian government's anti-terror forces led a dramatic raid on the Marriott Hotel, seizing Fahmy, Canadian-Egyptian bureau chief for the independent English Al Jazeera, and two fellow journalists in what quickly became an international cause célèbre condemned as a travesty of justice. Inside the maximum-security Scorpion Prison, Fahmy found himself with some of the most hardened Al Qaeda and ISIS extremists and Muslim Brotherhood leaders: always intrepid, he never stopped being a journalist, courageously taking advantage of his unexpected proximity to "interview" them and gain insight into their goals, into the feuds between Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE on the one hand, and Qatar and its allies, including Turkey, on the other, and surfacing shocking details of torture inside military camps. Thrown into the toxic mix is the complex geo-political power brokering of our Western governments also, which left three men, wrongly convicted of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood and "fabricating news," struggling in a terrifying web he describes as "Global McCarthyism" and a war on journalism. Threaded through it all is an inspiring love story, as Fahmy's fiancée, Marwa, used every means at her disposal to fight for his release and his health, even to risking her own freedom smuggling cell phones and messages in and out of prison."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel; Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel.; False arrest; False imprisonment; Journalists; Journalists; Prisons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Longarm and the lady lawbreaker / by Evans, Tabor.;
Subjects: Western stories.; United States. Marshals Service; Longarm (Fictitious character); Prisoners; Fugitives from justice; United States marshals;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A commonwealth of thieves : the improbable birth of Australia / by Keneally, Thomas,1935-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Phillip, Arthur, 1738-1814.; Convict ships; Frontier and pioneer life; Governors; Penal colonies; Prisoners;
© c2006., Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A gambling man [sound recording] / by Baldacci, David,author.; Ballerini, Edoardo,1970-narrator.; Pressley, Brittany,narrator.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Edoardo Ballerini and Brittany Pressley.WWII veteran Aloysius Archer is fresh out of prison and heads to California, where there's money to be made if you're hard-working, lucky, a criminal, or all three.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Extortion; Murder; Private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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High wild desert / by Cotton, Ralph W.;
Sam Burrack is headed for Yuma, escorting Harvey "Cisco" Lang to prison and Adele Simpson to safety but his companions are the least of his worries. A ruthless cattle baron has put a 5,000 price on his head.
Subjects: Western stories.; Arizona Rangers; Burrack, Sam (Fictitious character);
© 2013., Signet,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Music from the big house [videorecording] / by Burgess, Tony,1959-; Chiarelli, Rita.; McDonald, Bruce,1959-; Young, Erin Faith.; Caché Film and Television (Firm); Matson Films (Firm);
Director of photography, Steve Cosens ; edited by Eamonn O'Connor ; composer, Chris Guglick.Rita Chiarelli.Rita Chiarelli's exploration of Louisiana's Angola Prison, its inmates and the blues music tradition they perform with her.E.DVD, widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Louisiana State Penitentiary.; Blues (Music); Documentary films.; Music in prisons.;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Game on! / by Steinberg, David,1962-; Smith, Brian,(Brian Arthur),1975-ill.;
When Old Fogey escapes from prison and creates a video game that physically sucks the players into the game, it is up to Daniel, aka Loud Boy, and his friends to call upon their superpowers to rescue the captured players.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Graphic novels.; Heroes; Video games; Science fiction.; Humorous stories.;
© c2009., Grosset & Dunlap,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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