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The escape artists : a band of daredevil pilots and the greatest prison break of the Great War / by Bascomb, Neal,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of three downed British airmen who mastermind an elaborate, rollicking escape from a WWI German POW camp"--
Subjects: Prisoner-of-war escapes; Escaped prisoners of war; Prisoner-of-war camps; World War, 1914-1918; Airmen;

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank redemption / by King, Stephen,1947-author.;
Stephen King's beloved novella, 'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption' - the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee 'The Shawshank Redemption' - about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is now available for the first time as a standalone book.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novellas.; Prisons; False imprisonment; Prison wardens; Escapes; Murder;

The tragedy of true crime : four guilty men and the stories that define us / by Lennon, John J.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a Brooklyn street. Now he's a journalist, working from behind bars, trying to make sense of it all. The Tragedy of True Crime is a first-person journalistic account of the lives of four men who have killed, written by a man who has killed. John J. Lennon entered the New York prison system with a sentence of twenty-eight years to life, but after he stepped into a writing workshop at Attica Correctional Facility, his whole life changed. Reporting from the cellblock and the prison yard, Lennon challenges our obsession with true crime by telling the full life stories of men now serving time for the lives they took. The men have completely different backgrounds -- Robert Chambers, a preppy Manhattanite turned true crime celebrity; Milton E. Jones, a burglar coaxed into something far darker; and Michael Shane Hale, a gay man caught in a crime of passion -- and all are searching to find meaning and redemption behind bars. Lennon's reporting is intertwined with the story of his own journey from a young man seduced by the infamous gangster culture of New York City to a celebrated prison journalist. The same desire echoes throughout the four lives: to become more than murderers. A first of its kind book of immersive prison journalism, The Tragedy of True Crime poses fundamental questions about the stories we tell and who gets to tell them. What essential truth do we lose when we don't consider all that comes before an act of unthinkable violence? And what happens to the convicted after the cell gate locks?"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Murderers; Prisoners;

The class : trauma and transformation in an American prison / by Hedges, Chris,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Chris Hedges's powerful memoir of his year of teaching inmates in a maximum-security New Jersey prison takes readers into the lives of men who were all but destined to become incarcerated because of their impoverished and dangerous childhoods and shows why criminal justice reform is so essential"--
Subjects: East Jersey State Prison.; Criminal justice, Administration of; Criminals; Prisoners; Prisoners;

Down inside : thirty years in Canada's prison service / by Clark, Robert,1955-;
Both a personal memoir of author Robert Clark's three decades in Canada's federal prisons in Ontario, and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.LSC
Subjects: Clark, Robert, 1955-; Prison wardens; Criminals;

Italian Canadian internment in the Second World War / by Hickman, Pamela.; Smith Cavalluzzo, Jean.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 108), discography, filmography, Internet addresses and index.Through historical photographs, documents and first-person narratives, this book offers an account of Italian Canadian internment in World War II. Includes links to video clips.LSC
Subjects: Italian Canadians; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Italian Canadians;
© c2012., J. Lorimer & Co.,

Banished. [videorecording] / by Buring, MyAnna,1984-actor.; Duggan, Shaun,screenwriter.; McGovern, Jimmy,screenwriter.; Percival, Dan,television director.; Rhind-Tutt, Julian,1968-actor.; Tovey, Russell,actor.; Walker, Jeffrey,1982-television director.; BBC Worldwide Ltd.,publisher.; RSJ Films,production company.; See-Saw Films,production company.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,film distributor.;
Julian Rhind-Tutt, Myanna Buring, Russell Tovey.In his latest TV drama Banished, writer Jimmy McGovern tells a brutal story about the first British convicts to be transported to Australia. A story of survival set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in 1788.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Historical television programs.; Penal colonies; Prisoners; Prisons; Television programs.;
For private home use only.

Japanese Canadian internment in the Second World War / by Hickman, Pamela.; Fukawa, Masako,1940-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 156), Internet addresses (p. 157) and index.LSC
Subjects: Japanese Canadians; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Canadians;
© c2011., James Lorimer and Co.,

Somebody's daughter : a memoir / by Ford, Ashley C.,author.;
"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who understands her. She thinks she understands him too. He's sensitive like her, an artist, and maybe even just as afraid of the dark. She's certain that one day they'll be reunited again, and she'll finally feel complete. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she doesn't know what he did to end up there. Through poverty, puberty, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley returns to her image of her father for hope and encouragement. She doesn't know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates; when the relationship turns sour, he assaults her. Still reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley finally finds out why her father is in prison. And that's where the story really begins. Somebody's Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she provides a poignant coming-of-age recollection that speaks to finding the threads between who you are and what you were born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Ford, Ashley C.; African American families; African American women; Children of prisoners; Prisoners' families;

The keep / by Egan, Jennifer;
Subjects: Cousins; Prisoners; Psychological fiction; Suspense fiction;
© c2006., Alfred A. Knopf,

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