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43) Child of light
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"From the brilliant mind behind the Shannara saga comes an electrifying new fantasy series about a human girl struggling to find her place in a magical world she's never known. At nineteen, Auris Afton Grieg has led an . . . unusual life. Since the age of fifteen, she has been trapped in a sinister prison. Why? She does not know. She has no memories of her past beyond the vaguest of impressions. All she knows is that she is about to age out of the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Hank Fallon used to be one of the best deputy marshals in the country. Then he got framed for a crime he didn't commit. Got sentenced to ten years in a federal penitentiary. And got out early for saving the life of the captain of the guards during a riot. When Fallon is released, a private detective is waiting for him. He wants to put Hank behind bars again--but this time, as an undercover agent ... The last thing Fallon wants is to return to jail....
45) The system
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Full screen edition
Language
English
Description
All that glitters is not Emerald City. Following the bloodbath that ended the prison riot, life is returning to far from normal for those who survived in the experimental unit. The Aryan Schillinger still butts heads with Beecher. The mob, led by Schibetta, continues to find its business cut. Warden Glynn and Time McManus struggle to do the right thing for their prisoners, facing adversity at every turn from Governor Devlin.
48) Rose under fire
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
49) Brubaker
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of a reform warden who risks his life to replace brutality and corruption with humanity and integrity in a state prison farm.
50) Death warrant
Series
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A Royal Canadian Mountie is posing as a prisoner to find out who has been offing penitentiary inmates. His cover is threatened by the incoming transfer of one of his old Mountie foes.
51) Fugitives
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 4
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After achieving the impossible by escaping the laboratories and cells of Furnace Penitentiary, Alex, injected with superhuman abilities, must uncover the last of Furnace's secrets--the truth about the man who built the prison.
52) Get the gringo
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
53) The mustang
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Roman is a man serving a prison sentence of 12 years for committing a violent crime. His rehabilitation options include working at a facility that breaks and trains wild mustang horses. Within a short time, Roman's work with the horses propels him into an introspective period. He learns about the true origins of his own anger when he befriends a particularly troubled mustang. As his relationship with the mustang grows, Roman begins to deeply consider...
54) Dog pound
Publisher
Distributed by Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Set in the harsh world of the American juvenile detention system, Dog Pound tells the story of seventeen-year-old Butch charged with assaulting a corrections officer. Facing attacks from hardened criminals and ruthless guards, he finds he has to become vicious in order to survive.
56) Tail Gait
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spring has sprung in Crozet, Virginia -- a time for old friends to gather and bid farewell to the doldrums of winter. Harry and her husband, Fair, are enjoying a cozy dinner with some of the town's leading citizens, including beloved University of Virginia history professor Greg "Ginger" McConnell and several members of UVA's celebrated 1959 football team. But beneath the cloak of conviviality lurks a sinister specter from the distant past that threatens...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethlehem Books
Pub. Date
[1999], c1961
Language
English
Description
A resourceful fifteen-year-old junior officer in the American Revolutionary Army is held as prisoner of war in a household in southern England, where he becomes involved with young Charlotte and her family while continuing to plot an escape.
59) The package
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
When Sgt. Johnny Gallagher is assigned the task of delivering a military prisoner to the U.S. for court martial, little does he know that they will be assaulted, and his prisoner will disappear. Gallagher soon finds a trail of clues leading to an international conspiracy- one that will change the course of mankind.
60) Locked down
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Danny, a respected cop, is set up after an investigation goes wrong. While lying low in his new jail cell, Danny is forced to get involved in the inmates' underground cage-fighting circuit. With the help of Irving, a former mixed martial arts champion, Danny devises a scheme to bring justice and innocence to his family's name, if he can get out of the cage alive.
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