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English
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Wes Carver returns to his hometown — Black River, Montana — with two things: his wife’s ashes and a letter from the parole board. The convict who once held him hostage during a prison riot is up for release. For years, Wes earned his living as a corrections officer and found his joy playing the fiddle. But the riot shook Wes’s faith and robbed him of his music; now he must decide if his attacker should walk free.
2) Escape
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Chicago special-ops leader Detective Billy Harney investigates when six jail inmates escape and leave a taunting note for him along with two dead correctional officers.
3) Eileen
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Language
English
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The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the...
Author
Series
Mike Bowditch novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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While on vacation, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch receives a strange summons from Billy Cronk, one of his oldest friends and a man he had to reluctantly put behind bars for murder. Billy wants him to investigate a new female prison guard with a mysterious past, and Mike feels honor-bound to help his friend. But when the guard becomes the victim in a brutal attack at the prison, he realizes there may be a darker cover-up at play--and that Billy...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive, the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike,...
Publisher
LearningExpress
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"A career as a corrections officer offers solid pay, great benefits, and job security. Make sure you get there with this all-in-one guide to the exam. Three practice tests and details about the hiring process for state and federal jobs are also included." --
Publisher
LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
This practice test consists of 50 multiple-choice questions in the five areas typically assessed on Corrections Officer exams across the nation: Memorization, Reading Comprehension, Situational Reasoning, Mathematics, and Writing.
Publisher
LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
This practice test consists of 50 multiple-choice questions in the five areas typically assessed on Corrections Officer exams across the nation: Memorization, Reading Comprehension, Situational Reasoning, Mathematics, and Writing.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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The Newbery Honor Book and New York Times Bestseller that is historical fiction with a hint of mystery about living at Alcatraz not as a prisoner, but as a kid meeting some of the most famous criminals in our history. Al Capone Does My Shirts has become an instant classic for all kids to read!
Today I moved to Alcatraz, a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. I'm not the only...
Today I moved to Alcatraz, a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. I'm not the only...
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