Alcatraz : the gangster years / David A. Ward ; with Gene Kassebaum.
2009
KFC1181 .W37 2009 (Mapit)
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Alcatraz : the gangster years / David A. Ward ; with Gene Kassebaum.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Description
xxvii, 548 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-522) and index.
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STA
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KFC1181 .W37 2009
Language
English
ISBN
9780520256071 alkaline paper
0520256077 alkaline paper
0520256077 alkaline paper
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