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61) Hungry hills
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A struggling farmer must choose between several desperate options in this period drama, set in Canada in the 1920s. Snit Mandolin is a young man whose family emigrated to Canada when he was a boy. They were viewed with deep suspicion by their new neighbors in Saskatchewan, and when his parents died, Snit was sent to live in a group home where brutal violence was commonplace.
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The federal government can't touch Michael Scofield, so they're going after the woman he loves. When Sara is arrested for murder, only Michael can rescue her, and their unborn child, from an impenetrable women's prison. Michael must rely on his deadliest enemies to help attempt the most daring breakout ever.
67) Mayor of Hell
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Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon a new Deputy Commissioner arrives complete with hip flask and blonde.
68) Stranger inside
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Treasure Lee just moved out of "juvenile" into the State Pen. Now she needs to learn how the system works, search out where the power lies, and find herself a new lover. She soon meets Brownie, a jail-toughened lifer, who works through her extended family of loyal girls. The closer Treasure gets to Brownie, the more enemies she makes.
71) Infestation
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Twelve-year-old Andy Greenwood and fellow students at the Reclamation School for Boys in the New Mexico desert face an infestation of giant, mutant ants.
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With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years ago. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous correctional facility in Danbury, Conn., the Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424-- one of the millions of women in the American penal system. From her first strip search to her final release,...
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"The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is a rare and original autobiography, a first-person account of a young black man's life as an indentured servant, a juvenile delinquent, and a prisoner in New York State in the mid-nineteenth century. Austin Reed was born a free man near Rochester, NY in the 1820s. As a young adult, he was sent to a juvenile reform school in Manhattan, where he learned to read and write. In the decades that followed,...
75) After you died
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Seventeen-year-old bisexual teen boy Asher remembers nothing from the night in 1968 that the police found him covered in his girlfriend's blood. He knows he'd never hurt anyone, least of all her. But the only person who believes him is his twin sister. He's sentenced to five years at the Dozier Reform School. And like Asher's memory, Dozier hides violent secrets of its own. Juvenile boys serving time for everything from truancy to murder are hidden...
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"With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years ago. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424-- one of the millions of women who disappear 'down the rabbit hole' of the American...
78) Go for broke
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Two down-and-out guys buy a winning lottery ticket only to have it stolen by a beautiful bandit. She eventually ends up in an all women's jail that the two men must now break into.
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De poco sirve ser un buen estudiante en la Academia Nickel para chicos. Elwood -pobre, huérfano y de raza negra- no tarda en descubrirlo cuando, por un malentendido, le encierran en este reformatorio. Con la ayuda de un buen amigo, este adolescente descubrirá cómo sobrevivir en este lugar que esconde un brutal secreto y una realidad corrupta, respaldada por muchos y obviada por todos. Basada en el estremecedor caso real de un reformatorio de Florida...
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A couple having an illicit affair witness a murder while on a romantic rendezvous and can't report it without exposing their infidelities; a young waitress steals money from her boss who cheated her father years ago; women inmates suffer at the hands of a sadistic warden; a dancer-turned-photographer with a talent for illegal business heads for New York and gets in over her head.