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21) Execution
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 5
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Alex Sawyer has escaped his underground nightmare to discover that the whole world has become a horrible prison run by his nemesis, Alfred Furnace, and only Alex can stop him, even if that makes him the executioner.
22) Fugitives
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 4
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After achieving the impossible by escaping the laboratories and cells of Furnace Penitentiary, Alex, injected with superhuman abilities, must uncover the last of Furnace's secrets--the truth about the man who built the prison.
Author
Language
English
Description
1945. Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta is lucky to have escaped with her life. When the American soldier she plans to wed is killed in a plane crash, she discovers she is pregnant, and marries a British diplomat in an attempt to create a happier life.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
27) Healing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
After serving an eighteen year prison sentence, a man is sent to Won Wron, a special prison where men are responsible for rehabilitating injured animals.
30) The misfits
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A band of modern-day Robin Hoods recruits a renowned thief to help steal millions in gold bars stashed underneath one of the world's most secure prisons.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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.
33) The system
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Following Black Mask's destruction of Arkham Asylum, Dr. Jeremiah Arkham has rebuilt the Asylum following the design of his mad Uncle Amadeus. But will the new Arkham be a haven for the criminally insane -- or a house of torture?" -- from publisher's web site.
36) Oldboy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After being held prisoner by a mysterious captor for twenty years, a man is released and sets out to find his daughter and take revenge against the man who held him captive.
38) The experiment
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Twenty-four men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a scientific research project to test the psychological effects of prison life, but the experiment spirals out of control.
39) The informer
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ex-convict working undercover intentionally gets himself incarcerated again in order to infiltrate the mob at a maximum security prison.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"From the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast comes this illuminating view of prison life, as told by presently and formerly incarcerated people. The United States locks up more people per capita than any other nation in the world. The acclaimed podcast Ear Hustle, named after the prison term for eavesdropping, gives voice to that ever-growing prison population. Co-created by visual artist Nigel Poor and inmate...
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