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The Shawshank Redemption. The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American prison drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The film tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of ...
Cast members of Prison Break: Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Wade Williams, Sarah Wayne Callies, Wentworth Miller with executive producer Matt Olmstead. This is a list of characters in the American television series Prison Break. The characters are listed alphabetically by their last name or by the name which appears in the episode credits.
Shiv (weapon) A shiv, also chiv, schiv, shivvie, or shank, [1][2] is a handcrafted bladed-weapon resembling a knife that is commonly associated with prison inmates. Since weapons are highly prohibited in the prison environment, the intended mode of concealment is central to a shiv's construction. An especially thin handle, for instance, makes ...
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz (English: / ˈælkəˌtræz /, Spanish: [a l k a ˈ t ɾ a θ] "the gannet ") or The Rock, was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The site of a fort since the 1850s, the ...
And a 62-year-old inmate named Lawrence Evans alleges that in January 2012, an officer skipped more than 400 pellets of birdshot off the ground to break up a dining hall fight. Two officers and 11 inmates were hurt, including Evans. “It felt like my entire left side was shredded!”. Evans wrote later.
Prison slang is an argot used primarily by criminals and detainees in correctional institutions. It is a form of anti-language. [1] Many of the terms deal with criminal behavior, incarcerated life, legal cases, street life, and different types of inmates. Prison slang varies depending on institution, region, and country. [2]
Crime and Punishment (1970 film) Soviet film starring Georgi Taratorkin, Tatyana Bedova, Vladimir Basov, Victoria Fyodorova) dir. Lev Kulidzhanov. Crime and Punishment (1979 TV series) is a three-part 1979 television serial produced by the BBC, starring John Hurt as Raskolnikov and Timothy West as Porfiry Petrovich.
Broad arrow. A stylised broad arrow. Heraldic broad arrow with plain barbs. The broad arrow, of which the pheon is a variant, is a stylised representation of a metal arrowhead, comprising a tang and two barbs meeting at a point. It is a symbol used traditionally in heraldry, most notably in England, and later by the British government to mark ...