| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 548 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map, portraits |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-522) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 vivid accounts of the lives of other infamous criminals who passed through the penitentiary from 1934 to 1948. Ward, who enjoyed unprecedented access to FBI, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Federal Parole records, conducted interviews with one hundred former Alcatraz convicts, guards, and administrators to produce this definitive history. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California.
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United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California. |
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United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California. |
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Alcatraz / Zuchthaus. |
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Prisons -- California -- Alcatraz Island -- History.
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Prisons. |
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California -- Alcatraz Island. |
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History. |
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Alcatraz Island (Calif.) -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Kassebaum, Gene G.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ward, David A. Alcatraz. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009 9780520256071 (DLC) 2008021232 (OCoLC)228300841 |
| ISBN |
9780520942981 (electronic book) |
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0520942981 (electronic book) |
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0520256077 |
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9780520256071 |
| Standard No. |
9786612772481 |
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