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This category is for autobiographies or memoirs in book form dealing with significant episodes of imprisonment, or by a prison guard or officer. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Tara Reid has been a constant subject of tabloid headlines ever since hitting it big in 1999's American Pie. ET visited the actress at home to find out how she copes with all the negative press.
Hers is the only known first person narrative of an Ottoman prisoner and is the earliest known women's prison memoir in the Middle East. Nien Cheng, author of Life and Death in Shanghai. 1987. London: Grafton Books. ISBN 0-586-07115-6 (theme: denunciation of Maoism)
Escape from Furnace is a series of five novels written by British author Alexander Gordon Smith. [1] The books are written from perspective of the teenage protagonist Alex Sawyer and describe his incarceration in the fictional London prison Furnace Penitentiary.
One of the most widely read early accounts of prison life in the 20th century was My Life in Prison (1912), by Donald Lowrie. The book inspired Thomas Mott Osborne, who later became warden at Sing Sing, to dedicate his career to prison reform.
Prison literature is the literary genre of works written by an author in unwilling confinement, such as a prison, jail or house arrest. [1] The writing can be about prison, informed by it, or simply incidentally written while in prison. It could be a memoir, nonfiction, or fiction.
In a letter postmarked before his June 6 escape from a New York state prison, convicted murderer Richard Matt told his daughter "See you on the outside," the Buffalo News reported. But Matt never ...
The Farm: Angola, USA is a 1998 award-winning documentary set in the notorious and largest American maximum-security prison, Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. Loosely based on articles published in Life Sentences , drawn from the prison magazine, The Angolite , the film was directed and produced by Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus .