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  2. Category : People who died by suicide in prison custody

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    This is a category of persons who have died by suicide while in prison. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ...

  3. Whirligig (novel) - Wikipedia

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    He crashes into a car driven by a girl named Lea Zamora. Brent survives, but Lea dies in the crash, and Brent is left with guilt and a feeling of desperation to improve his seemingly meaningless life. Instead of a conventional prison sentence, Brent agrees to a form of restitution chosen by Lea's mother.

  4. Prison Book Program - Wikipedia

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    Prison Book Program is an American non-profit organization that sends free books to people in prison. [1] While the organization is based in Massachusetts, it mails packages of books to people in prisons in 45 U.S. states , as well as Puerto Rico and Guam . [ 2 ]

  5. Jason Moss (writer) - Wikipedia

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    Jason Michael Moss (February 3, 1975 – June 6, 2006) was an American attorney who specialized in criminal defense. He was best known as the author of The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer (1999), a memoir about his exploration of the minds of incarcerated serial killers, which started as a research project in college.

  6. American prison literature - Wikipedia

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    The book inspired Thomas Mott Osborne, who later became warden at Sing Sing, to dedicate his career to prison reform. [ citation needed ] In 1924, after World War I, H.L. Mencken founded the American Mercury magazine and regularly published convict authors.

  7. Jack Henry Abbott - Wikipedia

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    Six weeks after being paroled from prison, Abbott stabbed and killed a waiter outside a New York City cafe. Abbott was convicted and sent back to prison, where he killed himself in 2002. Abbott described his life as being a "state-raised convict", spending much of his life since age 12 in confinement in state facilities, including solitary ...

  8. Deals with the Devil in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The theme enjoyed a large run of popularity in the 20th century. At one point Anthony Boucher, editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, "reported that fully 50 percent of his unsolicited submissions consisted of deal-with-the-devil stories or 'formalities of the hereafter', which as often as not involved the Devil". [1]

  9. Defending Jacob - Wikipedia

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    Jacob claims that he found Ben dead in the park and tried to revive him. While Jacob spends the night in jail, Andy reveals to Laurie that his father, Billy Barber, is a convicted murderer and rapist who is serving his life sentence at a Connecticut state prison. At the request of Jacob's lawyer, Andy reluctantly meets with Billy.