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In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for 9 dollars an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an expose about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature...
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Minotaur Books
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...
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Black market (Kiki Swinson) volume 3
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Dafina Books; Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"She killed her abusive boyfriend in self-defense. But in jail, violent female gangs paid off by her enemies keep her fearing for her life--and land her in the hospital. From there, a medical testing facility is her one dubious hope for some kind of safety. But from the moment she hits the yard, she and other prisoners are victimized by illegal medical experiments. Injected with lethal diseases and made a test subject for experimental vaccines, she's...
6) Taboo
Author
Series
Taboo novels volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
7) N2 deep
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Take a ride with Teka, a rookie correctional officer as she becomes entangled in a web that she can't claw her way out of.
Author
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Taboo novels volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Corrections officer Sierra Howell finds herself in a dangerous love triangle with her fiancé and a former Riker's Island inmate.
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Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After more than a decade as a prison guard overseeing Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), Brand, with the assistance of Mail on Sunday Africa correspondent Jones, chronicles the unlikely personal relationship they built.
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