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1) Monster
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
2) Sapphique
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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"Incarceron, the living prison, has lost one of its inmates to the outside world: Finn's escaped, only to find that Outside is not at all what he expected. Used to the technologically advanced, if violently harsh, conditions of the prison, Finn is now forced to obey the rules of Protocol, which require all people to live without technology. To Finn, Outside is just a prison of another kind, especially when Claudia, the daughter of the prison's warden,...
3) Dead time
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Doing time in Texas is no picnic. But getting sent to The Walls in Huntsville is a fate worse than hanging. If the guards don’t kill you, the prisoners will. And if it weren’t for the fact that the man who framed Hank Fallon and murdered his family could be inside The Walls, Hank would never step one foot in that heinous helltrap—let alone go undercover as an inmate. But this isn’t just another assignment. This is his chance for revenge ....
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"Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison Guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile, but he's never seen anything like John Coffey--a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 62
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""The greatest of our Civil War novels" (New York Times) reissued for a new generation As the United States prepares to commemorate the Civil War's 150th anniversary, Plume reissues the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel widely regarded as the most powerful ever written about our nation's bloodiest conflict. MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville tells the story of the notorious Confederate Prisoner of War camp, where fifty thousand Union soldiers were held...
6) Incarceron
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
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In Incarceron, a vast intelligent city-prison sealed off from the outside world and hidden from everybody except the Warden, two young people, Cynthia, the Warden's daughter who is trying to esacape an arranged marriage, and Finn, a young prisoner who cannot remember his childhood, join forces to attempt to escape.
7) Resurrection
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While serving as a juror at the trial of a prostitute, Prince Nekhlyudov recognizes the defendant as a young servant girl he once loved and abandoned and tries to rectify the situation.
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Hank Fallon series volume 2
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Former prisoner-turned-detective Hank Fallon becomes caught in a prison riot when he goes undercover at the Missouri State Penitentiary where he must befriend a pregnant inmate to find out where her bank-robbing boyfriend hid the stolen cash.
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2013.
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The purposed of this project is to conduct a thorough analysis of the state's short and long term needs for prison capacity. The study will address the amount of capacity required, the type of beds needed, and operational efficiency. The end result will be a plan that identifies the optimal use of the state's prison resources to meet projected population demands.
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
The purposed of this project is to conduct a thorough analysis of the state's short and long term needs for prison capacity. The study will address the amount of capacity required, the type of beds needed, and operational efficiency. The end result will be a plan that identifies the optimal use of the state's prison resources to meet projected population demands.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
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.
13) Breakout
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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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.
14) The star rover
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Born into poverty in San Francisco in 1876, Jack London is one of the most well-known and beloved of all American authors, as well as one of the first Americans to become world famous and wealthy from his literary career. London lived a colorful and adventurous life as a young man, working as a sailor and then living as a hobo, all before starting high school. First published in 1915 "The Star Rover" also published as "The Jacket" is the tale of Darrell...
15) Bloodthirsty
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From the masters of American frontier storytelling, another chapter in the Buckhorn saga-a blood-pounding tale of one man's sacred mission to bring justice to the American west, the only way he knows how.
16) Death Sentence
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Escape from Furnace volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After his failed attempt to escape from Furnace Penitentiary, Alex struggles to survive the bloodstained laboratories beneath where monsters are manufactured, with a death sentence--or worse--hanging over his head.
17) Haunted prisons
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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Explores the history of eleven haunted prisons, most of them located in the United States.
18) Offender search
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[date of publication not identified]
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Database of inmates and parolees in the Department of Corrections system. Searchable by DOCNO, last name, first name, and date of birth. Searches can be limited by gender. Link to death row roster and information.
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Research publication volume no. 750
Pub. Date
2020.
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The Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) within the Department of Public Safety, and Legislative CouncilStaff are both charged with forecasting the state's prison population. These forecasts are designed to assist lawmakers in configuring prison bed space, capacity, and costs. The DCJ prepares two forecasts, one in the winter, and one in the summer that adjusts the previous winter forecast. Legislative Council Staff prepares a forecast each December...
20) Maximum security
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CHERUB novels volume 3
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Thirteen-year-old James is a trained spy and goes undercover inside a maximum security prison to break out the son of a weapons dealer who is selling missiles to terrorists.
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