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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ward, David A.
Other Authors: Kassebaum, Gene G.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California.
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California
Alcatraz / Zuchthaus.
Prisons > California > Alcatraz Island > History.
Prisons > Californie > Alcatraz > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Prisons
Alcatraz Island (Calif.) > History.
California > Alcatraz Island
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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