prisoners

One man's parting wish awakens Oz's heart that has been held captive by his own soul.

Years ago, Elliot unknowingly sealed a deal with the entity below Sablier known as Humpty Dumpty. Now, facing his true self, his sins, and the events that have brought him to the present circumstances, he comes up with a plan of action, hoping he may yet be saved.

In 1983, twenty-seven-year old Earl Smith walked through the menacing gates of San Quentin State Prison just as everyone thought he would. As a gang member and criminal from a young age, Smith expected to do some time. But when he walked in it was not as an inmate but as the Chaplain of Death Row. A year earlier six bullets were fired into his body in a botched drug deal. Those bullets saved his soul and changed his life path forever. Twenty-three years later, Smith had played chess with Charles Manson, negotiated truces between rival gangs, and bore witness to the final thoughts and prayers of dozens of Death Row inmates.

A collection of essays about people who have attempted to illegally cross borders. Includes information about fifteen-hundred people who have died, four-thousand people who have been deported, and more than two million people imprisoned for trying to cross borders world-wide in 2011.

Tells the story of Bleu Mobley, a controversial author serving time in prison for refusing to unmask a confidential source, as he reflects on his life growing up in a public housing project, becoming a journalist and novelist, and later as a prisoner. Contains excerpts and illustrations from 101 of Mobley's books interspersed throughout the narrative.

Thirty-something, Sonny Lofthus has been in a Oslo prison for the last dozen years for crimes he didn't commit, pacified by an uninterrupted supply of heroin, and surrounded by a host of corrupt individuals determined to keep him jailed, but when he learns the truth about his father, who had earlier been exposed as a corrupt cop, he makes a brilliant escape to hunt down the people responsible for the crimes he has been paying for.

Retired Special Forces operative Sam Dryden saves the life of an 11-year-old girl with no memory of her past who possesses a dangerous skill that is highly sought by violent government forces.

Contains unabridged editions of two memorials presented to the Illinois legislature in 1846-47 by humanitarian and reformer Dorothea Dix, in which she pleaded her case for the humane care and effective treatment of the mentally ill in Illinois; and includes a selection of newspaper articles she wrote detailing conditions in the jails and poorhouses of Illinois communities.

Reprint of a 1915 novel based on London's own brief experience in jail, in which death row inmate Darrell Standing tells tales of life inside California's San Quentin prison.