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Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This Australian series has, after 692 episodes, received cult status all over the world. The series takes place in Wentworth, a prison in Australia. Wentworth is a high-security female prison. The women are there for all sorts of crimes. We get to follow how they got there, their life in the prison and what becomes of them afterwards. We also get to follow the staff, their work in the prison and their personal relationships.
45) The Mars Room
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Hope Carpenter finds new purpose in a new phase of life when her husband's forced retirement strains both their savings and their marriage. Seeking inspiration and a financial boost, Hope gets a job teaching crafts to inmates at a local women's prison with surprising results"--
Author
Publisher
Michael Frederick
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Charlee Cox is a spoiled, second-generation prison guard in a minimum-security prison for women. His mother is the warden. She knows her bachelor son is up to something in her prison, but she needs proof before he ruins his life and hers.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Beth has done something awful. Something that has led to her arrest. Something that has convinced her she is a fundamentally bad person. Beth is also a sympathetic and amusing narrator. At the urging of her counselor, she begins to make a list of all the good things that have happened to her. It's difficult at first, as she was abandoned by her mother and shuffled from one foster home to another. Hers is a life that veered from a brilliantly artistic...
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The women of Wentworth Prison face a high-stakes power struggle as the hit Australian drama returns. In Season Three, Bea Smith receives a life sentence without parole and assumes the mantle of top dog, asserting her dominance over the other inmates, including Franky Doyle, who finds herself more vulnerable than ever before.
54) Critical storytelling from behind invisible bars: undergraduates and inmates write their way out
Series
Critical storytelling volume Volume 4
Publisher
Brill Sense
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes 'unstuck in time' after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five...
56) Caged
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
19 year-old Marie is sent to prison for being an accomplice in an robbery. When a prison head takes sympathy on her and tries to help, a cruel matron steps in and breaks her efforts.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After a failed attempt at escape, the princess of a tiny kingdom begins to reevaluate her life. Caroline, a former marathon runner who dropped out of school at fourteen to pursue an Olympic medal, was the perfect candidate for a tiara: shapely, disciplined, accustomed to public attention, and utterly uneducated. After she meets Finn, the handsome prince of a small European kingdom, her fate is sealed, with a collar of pearls locked around her throat...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising...