Alcatraz, America's Devil's Island
the gangster years
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Author
Contributions
- Kassebaum, Gene G. - Contributor
Publication
2008 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Language
English
Word Count
137,000 words, Guess
Page Count
548 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100520256077
- ISBN-139780520256071
- LibraryThing8307261
- Library of Congress Control Number2008021232
- OCLC Control Number228300841
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780520256071
- Open LibraryOL16865302M
Classifications
- DDC365/.979461
- LCCHV9474.A53 A46 2008
- LCCHV9474.A53A46 2008
and 2 more
- LCCHV9474.A53 W37 2009
- LCCHV9474.A53 W37 2008
Description
Part I, Alcatraz from 1934 to 1948. The federal government's war on "public enemies"--A new form of imprisonment -- Selecting the "worst of the worst" -- The program -- Organized resistance : a regime tested -- Finding a hole in the rock : the first escape attempts -- Alcatraz on trial -- The war years -- The battle of Alcatraz -- Part II, Life on the rock for resisters and public enemies. Resistance and adaptation -- Outlaws among outlaws -- Celebrity prisoners -- Part III, Alcatraz as as experiment in penal policy. Return to the free world -- Lessons from Alcatraz for supermax prisons.
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