From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.

On the death-row cellblock at Cold Mountain Penitentiary miracles have come to life through a gentle giant with supernatural powers that brings a senses of spirit and humanity to the guards and other inmates.

In 1950s Louisiana, Ginny Polk's job as a cook in a Louisiana prison, where she provides the last meals for death row prisoners, leads her into the secrets of her own past when she discovers information about the man who was executed for killing her father.

An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org
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Traces the sobering history of World War II's largest female concentration camp, revealing the torturous experiences and deaths of thousands of women prisoners of more than twenty nationalities.

The story of Eric Lomax, a British officer who was captured by the Japanese and sent to a Thai POW camp during World War II.

After returning home from World War II, Louis meets and marries Cynthia, but is haunted by his years as a prisoner of war.

The incredible story of the most decorated chaplain in US military history and his path to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.

Peter Tunstall's memoir of his days in the British Royal Air Force and as one of the most celebrated British POWs of World War II. Tunstall was an infamous tormentor of his German captors. Dubbed the "cooler king" on account of his long spells in solitary, he once dropped a water "bomb" directly in the lap of a high-ranking German officer. He also devised an ingenious method for smuggling coded messages back to London. But above all he was a highly...