Prisoner 88

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It's 1885. Ten-year-old Jake is sentenced to five years in the Idaho Territorial Penitentiary for shooting a man who had threatened his pa. Even though Jake thinks he can handle himself in prison, his day-to-day existence is more brutal than he anticipates. He is taken under the wing of a young guard and befriended by a few fellow prisoners. But when he has to make a choice about right and wrong during an explosive escape attempt, it's clear that the penitentiary is no place for a young boy. 

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Jake's story of danger and friendship was inspired by the incarceration of a real ten-year-old boy and was written using the trial transcripts, letters, and newspaper clippings from that time.

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