Summary: City banker Andy Dufresne arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947. Convicted of two brutal murders, he received a double life sentence. Within the confines of the prison, Andy forms an unlikely friendship with the prison "fixer" Red. He also becomes popular with the Warden and the prison's guards, as Andy is able to use his banking experience to help the corrupt officials amass personal fortunes....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHASummary: An in-depth look at the notorious 2015 escape from Clinton Correctional Facility, New York State's largest maximum security prison. The film gives a voice to current corrections officers whose lives have been impacted by the fallout and cannot speak to media, per state law. Including interviews with retired officers, state officials, and local law enforcement, the film explores circumstances...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WESummary: A former football quarterback now serving time in prison puts together a team of inmates to play a grudge game against the prison guards.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros Entertainment Inc. 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LONMcTeer, Janet
Summary: Helen Hewitt becomes the first woman put in charge of Barfield, a maximum security prison, facing hostility from inmates and opposition from staff.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rlj Entertainment 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GOVSummary: A former pro football quaterback suddenly lands in a maximum security prison. Using fellow inmates, he must put together a motley group of cons to play a no-holds-barred grudge game against the sadistic guards.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Longest 2005Plantinga, Adam
Summary: "Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit street cop who can't let injustice go-and who has the fighting skills to back up his idealism. If he sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage. When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he's brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison. Julie Wakefield, a grad student who happens to be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: GCP, Grand Central Publishing 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLASummary: A death row inmate in a Southern prison possesses the unusual gift of healing. A guard discovers the inmate's miraculous power and begins to question the man's guilt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007