Fire in the Big House : America's Deadliest Prison Disaster /

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"On April 21, 1930-Easter Monday-some rags caught fire under the Ohio Penitentiary's dry and aging wooden roof, shortly after inmates had returned to their locked cells after supper. In less than an hour, 320 men who came from all corners of Prohibition-era America and from as far away as...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Roth, Mitchel P., 1953- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, an imprint of Ohio University Press, [2019]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio)
Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio) > History.
Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio) > Fire, 1930.
History.
Prisoners.
Prisons.
Residential Fires.
Social conditions.
Prisons > Fires and fire prevention.
Fires.
Fires > Ohio > Columbus > History > 20th century.
Prisons > Ohio > History > 20th century.
Prisons > Fires and fire prevention > Ohio > Columbus.
Ohio > Columbus.
Ohio.
Columbus (Ohio) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Fire in the Big House
  • The fairgrounds
  • Columbus, Ohio
  • Ohio Penitentiary
  • The Big House
  • The warden
  • The keepers
  • The convicts
  • Board of inquiry
  • Mutiny in White City
  • The arsonists
  • Aftermath
  • Epilogue.

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