false imprisonment

Relates a sailor's preparation for and execution of revenge against the three men responsible for his fifteen years in prison.

Twelve-year-old Rosie and her brother face homelessness in Honolulu when their parents, Americans of German descent, are interrogated and imprisoned as suspected spies after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Includes historical notes.

"When the final gavel clapped in a rural southern courtroom in the summer of 1988, Willie J. Grimes, a gentle spirit with no record of violence, was shocked and devastated to be convicted of first-degree rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. Here is the story of this everyman and his extraordinary quarter-century-long journey to freedom."--Provided by publisher.

"Even though sixteen-year-old Erin Blake and her best friends Spam and Lysa are ordered not to become involved in any investigations, they look into Spam's boyfriend's past and conduct research to help Erin's uncle Victor and her boyfriend Journey re-examine evidence from the murder trial that sent Journey's father to prison"--OCLC.

"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. A ... look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--Provided by publisher.

The mixed race son of a puppeteer, Caleb tries to clear his father's name when the latter is accused of theft, but this quest ensnares Caleb in a net of deceit, conspiracy, and intrigue in mid-eighteenth century Devon.

Documents the experiences of Donald Marshall Jr., a young Mi'kmaq from Nova Scotia, who was framed for the murder of his friend Sandy Seale and spent eleven years in prison before being acquitted of the crime.

The lives of Jan, a wealthy white woman with an inside knowledge of organized crime, and Deesh, an African-American man charged with three murders, become intertwined when Jan contacts Deesh and offers to help exonerate him if he'll help her find the real killer.

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.