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Throne of glass

Throne of Glass, Book 1
2013
After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.

I'd know you anywhere

2010
Eliza Benedict unexpectedly hears from the man who kidnapped her when she was twelve and who is now on death row for the rape and murder of his final victim; but as she finds herself being drawn into his situation, it becomes apparent that he has a hidden agenda.

Taming the beast

Charles Manson's life behind bars
1998
Charles Manson's prison counselor chronicles Manson's life behind bars and discusses how his life has been affected by Manson and his followers.

Maximum Security

2013
CHERUB agent James, who after being orphaned is recruited by the secret agency, takes on missions tracking down a powerful drug lord and breaking out of prison to free the son of an illegal weapons dealer.

Worse than slavery

Parchman Farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice
1997

Ophelia and the marvelous boy

Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl, is still grieving her mother when her father takes a job in a museum located in a city where it never stops snowing. Ophelia is forced to suspend her disbelief in things non-scientific when she finds a boy locked in the museum where her father works. The boy, a prisoner of the Snow Queen, asks Ophelia to help him complete an age-old mission and save the world.

I'll fly away

further testimonies from the women of York Prison
2008
An anthology of writings by women prisoners in Connecticut's York Correctional Institution who participated in a writing workshop taught by novelist Wally Lamb.

8th amendment

the death penalty
2002
Travel to Huntsville, Texas, the execution capital of the world and the frontline of one of America's most polarizing political issues - the death penalty. Listen as protesters and supporters discuss capital punishment. Learn the history of the death penalty in the U.S., and follow the account of a death row inmate's final hours.

Sitting inside

Buddhist practice in America's prisons
2002

Razor-wire dharma

a Buddhist life in prison
2008

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