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Alcatraz : the gangster years /

Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Alvin Karpis, "Dock" Barker--these were just a few of the legendary "public enemies" for whom America's first supermax prison was created. In Alcatraz: The Gangster Years, David Ward brings their stories to life, along with vi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ward, David A.
Otros Autores: Kassebaum, Gene G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.