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Seventeen years [videorecording] / by Jiang, Ling.(CARDINAL)740836; Zhang, Yuan.(CARDINAL)743814;
Li Bingbing, Liu Lin, Li Yeping, Liang Soug, Li Juan.An unhealthy competition between two very different stepsisters emerges when their parents play favorites.MPAA rating: not rated.
Subjects: Drama.; Murder; Prison furloughs; Stepsisters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Furlough [videorecording] / by Collyer, Laurie,film director.; Strugatz, Barry(Screenwriter),screenwriter.; Gatien, Jen,1974-film producer.; Leo, Melissa,film producer,actor.(CARDINAL)343271; Thompson, Tessa,1983-actor.(CARDINAL)594983; Ramírez, Édgar,1977-actor.; Paquin, Anna,actor.(CARDINAL)533029; Goldberg, Whoopi,1955-actor.(CARDINAL)748364; Deerjen Films,production company.; EFC Films,production company.; Meridian Entertainment,presenter.; Shout! Factory (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)346726; Symbolic Exchange,production company.;
Music, Jeff Cardoni ; editor, Jesse Gordon ; director of photography, Bérénice Eveno.Melissa Leo, Tessa Thompson, Edgar Ramirez, Anna Paquin, Whoopi Goldberg.When an inmate is granted one weekend out of prison to see her dying mother, a rookie correction officer struggles to keep her under control.MPAA rating: R; for a brief sexual reference.DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.40:1) presentation, Dolby digital 5.1 or 2.0.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Prison furloughs; Prisons; Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Avengement [videorecording] / by Johnson, Jesse V.,1971-film director.; Adkins, Scott,1976-actor.(CARDINAL)787617; Fairbrass, Craig,actor.; Turgoose, Thomas,actor.; Samuel Goldwyn Films (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)847484;
While released on furlough from prison, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old haunts to take revenge on the people that made him a cold-hearted killer. It's an epic, bloody battle to search for the soul he lost years ago on the streets of an unforgiving city.Scott Adkins, Craig Fairbrass, Thomas Turgoose.MPAA rating: NRDVD; Widescreen presentation; Region 1, NTSC.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Crime films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Revenge; Crime; Battles;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A wall is just a wall : the permeability of the prison in the twentieth-century United States / by Hillyer, Reiko,1969-author.(CARDINAL)883401;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-334) and index.Clemency in the age of Jim Crow -- Freedom struggles : clemency hangs in the balance in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement -- The house of the dying : the decline of clemency under the new Jim Crow -- Southern hospitality : the rise of conjugal visits -- The national reach of conjugal visits -- "Daddy is in prison" : the decline of conjugal visits and the strange career of family values -- "To rub elbows with freedom" : temporary release in the Jim Crow South -- Conquering prison walls : furloughs at the crossroads of the rehabilitative idea -- Willie Horton and moral panic."A Wall is Just a Wall examines the connections between incarcerated people and those outside of prisons in the United States since the conclusion of World War II. Reiko Hillyer shows how these connections decreased in the latter half of the twentieth century and incarcerated people became increasingly cut off from the free world. Beginning with an examination of the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary known as Angola and its Travelling Ambassadors program, which allowed inmates to travel throughout the state for speaking engagements, Hillyer notes that, until the late 1970s, even lifetime sentences to prison were understood as temporary. Louisiana State prisoners with life sentences were routinely let out after 10 years and 6 months, while the federal system defined a life sentence as 15 years. Thus, interaction between inmates and free populations encouraged inmates' eventual reintegration into outside society. By the 1990s, state and national legislation restricted outside visits and lengthened sentences, further separating incarcerated populations from free populations and limiting the ability of prisoners to fashion constructive social identities. Each of the book's three sections focuses on a single policy that allows for connections between inmates and free citizens: gubernatorial clemency and pardons, conjugal and family visits, and temporary furloughs. A Wall is Just a Wall demonstrates that the current impermeability of the prison is neither natural nor inevitable, but rather a recent, uneven, and contested phenomenon."--
Subjects: Louisiana State Penitentiary.; Prison administration; Prisoners; Prisoners; Prisoners; Conjugal visits; Clemency;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Christmas in the Lone Star State [large print] : a Texas novel of the west / by Manning, Jason,author.(CARDINAL)436315;
Texas Ranger Bill Sayles is on the wrong side of three score years, but he still hits what he aims at and is not a man to cross. Ten days before Christmas, 1876, he arrives at the state prison to escort Jake Eddings on a furlough to lay his ten-year-old son to rest. But when Sayles gets wind that the murderous Litchfield brothers are headed for Eddings' farm, the Ranger and his prisoner join forces to grab a last shot at redemption.
Subjects: Large print books.; Christmas fiction.; Texas Rangers; Prisoners; Sons;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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48 Hours to Kill / by Bourelle, Andrew,author.(CARDINAL)356219;
A prison inmate on furlough learns a terrible secret about his sisters mysterious deathand descends back into the criminal underworld to uncover the truth, in this action-packed thrill ride James Patterson calls "the best thriller Ive read all year." Serving a ten-year sentence in a Nevada prison for armed robbery, Ethan Lockhart hopes that he can one day become a productive, law-abiding member of society. But society has other plans for Ethan. When hes given a forty-eight-hour furlough to attend his sister Abbys funeral, he learns that her body was never foundjust enough blood to declare her dead instead of missingand he begins to suspect that theres more to her death than was reported. Ethan decides to use his forty-eight-hour window to find out what happened. But to get to the bottom of the mystery, hell have to return to his unsavory past. Ethan teams up with his sisters best friend Whitney in a search for the truth. United in their shared grief, their chemistryboth emotional and physicalalso begins to heat up. But romance goes on hold as the suspects mount. Ethans old boss, Shark, a mid-level loan shark now heads a criminal empire. As Ethan and Whitney uncover more clues, they become convinced that Shark is responsible for the murder, but they have no proof. If Ethan is going to solve his sisters murder in forty-eight hours, he will have to become the criminal he swore hed never be again.
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Gold in the sun [large print] / by Richards, Dusty,author.(CARDINAL)346800;
"A drunken plan to make some quick money with two friends landed drifter Whit Ralston in the Yuma Territorial Prison-the worst prison in Arizona. Now he's doing hard time in the inferno the inmates call the Hell Hole, counting the days until his release. He's vowed never to do anything so stupid again... but then his crazy cellmate, Ratero, starts talking about a load of stolen gold stashed up in the mountains. At first, Whit dismisses it as fantasy, the feverish rantings of a man who'd spent too many years in stir. Then he's furloughed to help with a construction project outside the prison. The taste of freedom is intoxicating, but everyone he meets wants to know just one thing-where's Cordova's gold? Could Ratero's rantings possibly be based in truth? Could the gold really exist? When he falls for a beautiful, blue-eyed lady of the evening who seems as taken with him as he with her, Whit realizes he might have a new reason to run some risks. Once he gets out of prison, Whit starts making plans-but he's going to have to make better choices about just who to believe in order to hit pay dirt. People say a lot of things, but when it's money on the line, your best friend today could be holding you at gunpoint tomorrow. In the Old West, though, following the law is never as important as trusting the right people"--
Subjects: Western fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Prisoners; Gold theft; Treasure hunting; Treasure troves;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Christmas in the Lone Star State / by Manning, Jason,author.(CARDINAL)436315;
Texas Ranger Bill Sayles rode scout for Sam Houston when he was no more than fifteen. These days the lawman’s on the wrong side of three score years, and the glory days of the Rangers are on the wane. But Sayles still hits what he aims at and is not a man to cross. Ten days before Christmas in the harsh winter of 1876, Sayles arrives at the state prison in Huntsville to escort prisoner Jake Eddings on a furlough to his hometown, where his ten-year-old son is being laid to rest. In a desperate scheme to save his farm, Eddings took part in a stagecoach holdup in which the driver was killed. After serving two years of a fifteen-year sentence, he is already a broken man. Despite the agony of regret, he longs to see his wife and bury his beloved boy. But when Sayles gets wind that the murderous Litchfield brothers are headed in the direction of Eddings’ farm, the Ranger and his prisoner join forces to keep Eddings’ wife from harm―and maybe grab a last shot at redemption.
Subjects: Christmas fiction.; Western fiction.; Texas Rangers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Cajun fried felony / by DeLeon, Jana,author.(CARDINAL)342682;
Venus Thibodeaux had a reputation for being trouble. When she finally left Sinful shortly after turning eighteen, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. When she blew back into town four years later, no one was happy about her return. She immediately launched into her same old scams, picking off Sinful residents with ease before disappearing again as quickly as she'd appeared. When an accident at the annual Thanksgiving Turkey Run uncovers her body, everyone Venus took for a ride becomes a suspect. Fortune is hired to figure out who killed Venus, before someone goes to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Swindlers and swindling; Murder;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10
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Crime and culture; essays in honor of Thorsten Sellin. / by Wolfgang, Marvin E.(Marvin Eugene),1924-1998.(CARDINAL)146266; Sellin, Thorsten,1896-1994.(CARDINAL)150264;
Bibliographical footnotes.Thorsten Sellin and the principal trends in modern criminology, by J. Pinatel.--On criminologists, by W. H. Nagel.--Social-cultural conflict and criminality, by G. B. Vold.--Culture conflict, differential association, and normative conflict, by D. R. Cressey.--Culture conflict as a frame of reference for research in criminology and social deviation, by S. Shoham.--Anomie, culture conflict, and crime in disorganized and overorganized societies, by S. Schafer.--Psychocultural basis of contemporary juvenile inadaptation, by D. Szabo.--Problems of clinical criminology, by T. C. N. Gibbens.--Values v. variates, by L. T. Wilkins.--The unfinished business of criminal statistics, by J. P. Conrad.--A state bureau of criminal statistics, by R. H. Beattie.--European migration and crime, by F. Ferracuti.--Negligent homicide in some European countries, by J. Andenaes.--Recidivism among collaborators, by K. O. Christiansen.--Impressment into the Army and Navy, by L. Radzinowicz.--Manuel Montesinos y Molina, by I. Drapkin.--Sentencing re-visited, by H. Mannheim.--Some thoughts on the problem of deterrence, by M. Ancel.--Trends in penal methods, by P. Cornil.--New ways of punishment, by J. M. Van Bemmelen.--The Swedish furlough system for prisons, by T. Eriksson.--Bibliography of the writings of Thorsten Sellin (p. 429-442)
Subjects: Festschriften.; Bibliographies.; Sellin, Thorsten, 1896-1994; Crime.; Criminals.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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